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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ... Date: 29 Jul 2024 10:00:02 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 14 Expires: 1 Jul 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: <goofes-20240729105928@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> References: <uvej5e$34pfl$8@dont-email.me> <v7mdjl$pq7n$3@dont-email.me> <nbcu9j5d7r8gbdngudbti83dg4agsl6knb@4ax.com> <v7u9oq$2dgbs$2@dont-email.me> <h316ajtor5bl617eb6hj50fda24gu0dd3u@4ax.com> <v7vo2i$2ou11$1@dont-email.me> <l0j9aj5dn44utrbn005f7h0cvtthnm4eqn@4ax.com> <v82kea$3bv95$1@dont-email.me> <fk8aajpcod5eeq8okojbonqtslbnujm92m@4ax.com> <Schulz-20240728202139@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 2W1tNeixyCmPhXtD+oPz8wQCAZe+inEYawXuIZgKBc2Pli Cancel-Lock: sha1:MoCMOr7w547Pd876cEpKBkhVRsY= sha256:03LXeTqb4HLEI7vkpTM9LNWquZQ8DMFTEDDa2B9HaLM= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2628 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted: >Rich Ulrich <rich.ulrich@comcast.net> 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!