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On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Vadim Antonov wrote: > (As a side note - i find the ignorance of engineering professionals about > basic facts of the underlying science quite alarming; i guess the american > educational system puts too much emphasis on skills and too little on the > broader cirriculum, particularly mathematics. The very fact that engineering > people tend to dismiss logical conclusions as opinions, instead of trying > to find flaws in the logic, is a clear indicator of the absymal state of > overall comprehension of the scientific methodology). This bears reiteration. When I was in college, I learned a lot about statistics, which aside from being fun in an abstract way, I thought I'd never ever use that in my day job. Wrong. /vijay
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