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<div align=right>Cited as #8 of [http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/topten_worstgraphs/ “The top ten worst graphs”]<br> | <div align=right>Cited as #8 of [http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/topten_worstgraphs/ “The top ten worst graphs”]<br> | ||
from [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15627237?dopt=Abstract “Ethnicity and Human Genetic Linkage Maps”], <i>American Journal of Human Genetics</i>, February 2005</div> | from [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15627237?dopt=Abstract “Ethnicity and Human Genetic Linkage Maps”], <i>American Journal of Human Genetics</i>, February 2005</div> | ||
<center>[[File:EconGraph.jpg|200px]]</center> | <center>[[File:EconGraph.jpg|200px]]</center> | ||
Revision as of 17:53, 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.”
(1994 presidential address to the RSS)
Submitted by Margaret Cibes
Forsooth
![TopTenWorstGraphs.jpg](/wiki/chance/images/thumb/8/89/TopTenWorstGraphs.jpg/300px-TopTenWorstGraphs.jpg)
from “Ethnicity and Human Genetic Linkage Maps”, American Journal of Human Genetics, February 2005
![EconGraph.jpg](/wiki/chance/images/thumb/d/de/EconGraph.jpg/200px-EconGraph.jpg)
The New York Times, August 24, 2013
![ConfVar.png](/wiki/chance/images/thumb/d/d6/ConfVar.png/300px-ConfVar.png)
Submitted by Margaret Cibes and James Greenwood