Comments | lotta: It's all Greek to me!

lotta

It's all Greek to me!

Nov 10, 2005 02:58

I'm now taking a statistics class. In Swedish. And I'm not entirely convinced that doesn't really, really suck.

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anonymous November 10 2005, 05:33:43 UTC

Swedish statistics must be an oxymoron.

jes6ica November 10 2005, 14:35:25 UTC

Why?

kenatent November 10 2005, 06:24:45 UTC

70% or statistics are either misstated, improperly created, or inappropriately used. However, 90% of statistics classes will provide the taker with useful techniques of statistical analysis, which, at the very least, should allow the learner to discern between good statistical processes and bad ones; thus the learner becomes a more critical consumer of information.

szarlotka November 10 2005, 20:00:43 UTC

You should like you work for "them."

Statistically speaking, political science students who take statistics classes from the math department are ten times more likely than the general population to spontaneously combust.

szarlotka November 10 2005, 20:01:19 UTC

sound..."should" should be "sound"...

kenatent November 10 2005, 21:40:15 UTC

I don't follow you.

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kimbis November 10 2005, 08:25:15 UTC

I have a statistics dictionary if you want to borrow it. It's in Swedish.

szarlotka November 10 2005, 20:01:47 UTC

that would be great!

aka lotta

kimbis November 11 2005, 06:18:35 UTC

I can drop it by today if you like. Send me an SMS!

belgofiel November 10 2005, 08:43:38 UTC

Ah statistics... the sweet art of manipulating figures until they suit the research in which they are referred to...
Or am I being too ironic now?

lottieloo November 10 2005, 09:39:42 UTC

Sounds terrible!!!Poor you. Statistically I believe that statistics do really suck.