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<div align=right>[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/what-is-economics-good-for/ “What Is Economics Good For?”], <i>The New York Times</i>, August 24, 2013</div> | <div align=right>[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/what-is-economics-good-for/ “What Is Economics Good For?”], <i>The New York Times</i>, August 24, 2013</div> | ||
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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.”
(1994 presidential address to the RSS)
Submitted by Margaret Cibes
Forsooth
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American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2005
Submitted by Margaret Cibes
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Submitted by Margaret Cibes at the suggestion of Jim Greenwood