15 Jun
1999
15 Jun
'99
11:11 p.m.
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