Sujet : Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...
De : ram (at) *nospam* zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Groupes : sci.lang alt.usage.englishDate : 29. Jul 2024, 12:00:02
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Stefan Ram
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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!