I am sorry, I don't see the reason why Bryan's question is not appropriate
for the group. This is statistics discussion group and it should cater to
everything related to statistics. Proffessors, research fellows as well as
students are members of this group. I think everybody should have the right
to express their own queries be it basic or advanced. Whether he/she is
answered or not is secondary. If Bryan is unable to solve the problem then
he will ultimately have to ask someone!!! He can very well ask us if he
thinks our explanations are good enough for him.
I don't know about the mode of teaching in other countries, but in my
country, (India, ie) teachers and students are not always able to
communicate properly as not everybody has a computer at home. And for those
living far off, its very difficult to get in touch with the proffessors
unless the university is open. So I think discussion groups like these
should extend its branches to students too.
"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you
might not get there." - Yogi Bear
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Subject: [Fwd: Help wanted with my a Level Stats project pleeeses!]
Sorry I didn't forward this to the whole discussion list earlier.
Yes, it is true that student type questions such as Bryan's are not suitable
for Allstat's objectives. But I would also hope that the discussion group
is
fairly tolerant of the occasional student wandering onto the list. The
number of people, especially beginning students, who can read the stat book
and apply a chapter's points to a problem is very small - I estimate under
0.5% of the population in "developed" nations. The number who can
participate in a class, read the book, and then perform the problems is
still
less than the number of MBA students.
Whether a different text or instruction would change these numbers remains
to
be seen.
And don't forget - the fraction of the population that can understand our
serious research work, much less see the value of paying us to continue it,
is rather smaller than the fraction that learns to understand that
introductory stat class.
So send those students over to tutoraid or whatever, but make sure they
learn
the stuff, too. Someday one of them may hire you or me. Or not.
Cheers,
Jay
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