Definitely worth a read by Prof. Norman Matloff
My posting about the statistics profession losing ground to computer science drew many comments, not only here in Mad (Data) Scientist, but also in the co-posting at Revolution Analytics, and in Slashdot. One of the themes in those comments was that Statistics Departments are out of touch and have failed to modernize their curricula. Though I may disagree with the commenters’ definitions of “modern,” I have in fact long felt that there are indeed serious problems in statistics curricula…
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