smile Its all good.

Actually I think training social scientists - and I have to be honest and say I'm still 'in training' - is where there is so much potential wasted! There seems to be so much time spent on indoctrination to specific disciplines that the higher purpose of developing real, quality, critical thinking skills is ignored.

I also agree that statistics are so poorly understood in society at large and in some disciplines that it gives me headache. Few things drive me as batty as trying to explain to someone that 97% of people being x doesn't meant EVERYONE is and so them quoting what they're Great-Aunt Batty wasn't x doesn't change a thing! (Insert icon of someone running screaming in circles waving arms madly!)

But all of that is completely off-topic isn't it. I haven't actually read the article in question at all, so I have no on-track comment to make. smile