07-24-2013, 07:30 AM
(07-23-2013, 07:55 AM)Kathy link Wrote:My communication degree from Stanford did not require a statistics course. My master's in journalism from Mizzou did. The emphasis in the MU course was on how to interpret statistics.
More programs should do that. So many news stories badly misuse statistics. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate the reporters who do understand basic statistics; that makes it vastly easier to explain anything quantitative to them.
