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   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:   
   >Rich Ulrich  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!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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