Modern Interdisciplinary University Statistics Education Proceedings of a Symposium (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Even at this symposium we talk about how to do the old things better and more broadly, not about what we could offer to society, and what most needs to be done. Think about the whole range of the really big problems of the day: violence, crime and criminal justice, education and industrial productivity in the broadest senses, unemployment, the balance of trade, federal deficits, the health and welfare of millions of disadvantaged persons, urban rot, racial and ethnic tensions, and homelessness.
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I discussed this matter briefly with Wayne Fuller of Iowa State University, who reminded me that if we go even further back in our history, our intellectual grandparents and great-grandparents in statistics did indeed devote themselves to these big problems, and good analysts found ways to use flawed and incomplete data to derive sound conclusions and practical recommendations. But that tradition has been allowed to slip into the hands of other disciplines.
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Maybe you will look at your own curricula to see whether there is something that could be done about this, even to the point of allowing and encouraging graduate students in statistics to take more than occasional courses in substantive areas. How about giving our students encouragement and support to spend a summer, or a term, or even a whole year in supervised work in some applied operation in government or industry?
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