A student of eugenics. On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Mike Palij <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 05:53:51 -0800, Karl Louis Wuensch wrote: > >> On my stats exam there appears, in the upper right of the >> first page, "Student's Name _____." Two of my students wrote in there >> "William S. Gosset." >> Should I give them extra credit? A pint of stout? >> > > I'd have been more impressed if the student wrote "Bernard Lewis Welch". > > By the way, when I teach the Student/Gosset t-test, I tell the old > Guinness story and point out that if one has homogeneous variances, > one should celebrate by having a Guinness stout. > > However, if one has heterogeneous variances, there's more work > to do with Welch's correction and they should drink grape juice > instead of stout. > > Sometime the mnemonic works. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > [email protected] > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u > ?id=357701.a768e95c4963686e69b47febf8aa657a&n=T&l=tips&o=50062 > or send a blank email to leave-50062-357701.a768e95c496 > [email protected] > -- Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 501-450-5418 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=50064 or send a blank email to leave-50064-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
