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==Forsooth==
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<div align=center>“Figure 2.  Q-Q plots of Z scores for telomeric interval-length differences.”</div><br>  
<div align=center>“Figure 2.  Q-Q plots of Z scores for telomeric interval-length differences.”</div><br>  
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<div align=right><i>Significance</i> magazine, 2011</div>
<div align=right><i>Significance</i> magazine, March 2011</div>
Submitted by Margaret Cibes and James Greenwood
Submitted by Margaret Cibes and James Greenwood



Revision as of 17:52, 25 August 2013

Quotations

“It is worth dwelling for a moment on Egon [son of Karl] Pearson’s first-year lecture course …. [H]e was an inspirational teacher …. What was the reason for his success? [H]e was not a teacher who ladled out cookery-book recipes; rather he always seemed in his lectures to be working through and exploring problems with the class. He would wander down enticing dead-ends, but return to seek alternatives again and again until a satisfactory approach had been established. The result was that students acquired a questioning approach, not a compartmentalized approach whereby one problem was allocated to a 2 x 2 table, the next to multiple linear regression, etc.”

“What is Statistics?” by David J. Bartholomew

(1994 presidential address to the RSS)

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1995

Submitted by Margaret Cibes

Forsooth

TopTenWorstGraphs.jpg
“Figure 2. Q-Q plots of Z scores for telomeric interval-length differences.”


Cited as #8 of “The top ten worst graphs”

from “Ethnicity and Human Genetic Linkage Maps”

American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2005
EconGraph.jpg
“What Is Economics Good For?”
The New York Times, August 24, 2013
ConfVar.png
Significance magazine, March 2011

Submitted by Margaret Cibes and James Greenwood


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