Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> wrote or quoted:

also the first editor of Biometrika (for 35 years).  He described
what we know as the Pearson chisquared test -- but for a few
years, he insisted that it had 3 degrees of freedom, not 1. 

|It does feel like something to be wrong; it feels like being right.
Kathryn Schulz "On being wrong" (TED Talk) (2011-03)

  Math and physics whizzes can often roll with the punches on stuff
  like this. I've seen seasoned full math profs get called out by
  a freshmen during a lecture for flubbing a requirement. Without
  missing a beat, they'd be like, "You nailed it! I goofed up there.
  I should have demanded that the function is continuous." If anything,
  that just made me think the prof was even more badass!