Re: Are there any non-gifted scientists?!?!?
From: A. G. McDowell (mcdowella_at_nospam.co.uk)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:27:40 +0100
In article <5f6b0df.0404291822.3a9bb341@posting.google.com>, Der Fugue
<bwvbabygotbach@netscape.net> writes
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>Interesting... you're the second (third?) person to bring up
>mathematical statistics. Right now I'm taking AP stats at my high
>school, and I'm not too fond of the course. 89 first marking period
>:-/, although that *was* the 4th highest grade in the class. I've got
>the College Board examination for this class on Tuesday, which I
>should probably be studying for right now..
>
>My biggest qualm with the curriculum is that it is essentially based a
>combination of rote memorization and graphing calculator usage.
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The best thing you can say about the cookbook courses is that they are a
tribute to the importance of statistics, although I doubt very much that
their recipes will be applied correctly without understanding. Until you
find a course that tells you the theory behind the recipes, the best
preparation for such proper statistics is probability and calculus.
-- A. G. McDowell
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