Re: Preaching or Teaching?

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:20:53 -0500, Alan Lichtenstein wrote:




Herman must have changed his view, for he lobbied that the groundwork
for learning statistics be included in high school.

Herman hasn't changed his views in the nearly ten years I know of him. I
don't recall that he mentioned anything with any frequency regarding his
position on teaching statistics in high school.

Your problem is that I haven't bothered with Herman in over fifteen years
when I last had a need for statistics. At that time he was in an uproar
over his views not being accepted. As I said, he probably gave up on his
goal of certain preparatory courses being available in high school. You
are a little late to this discussion. The war is over, mediocrity won.

Alan, you can't read, you can't write, you can't think, you are uncivil,
and you are stupid. You do well at table lookup.

--
Glenn

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