Fragments From Floyd

Statistics. That's what the non-majors can look forward to in next week's labs. Welcome to the buzzing, pulsing, richly beautiful world of biology. But first, let's do the numbers.

So, between now and Thursday (two labs) and Friday (one lab; yes, a lab on Friday afternoon) I need to come up with some data sets and clearly-explained examples of how students can prepare this information from statistical tests they will perform in the proper chart, graph or table. Any ideas, y'all? Seriously, I would be happy for suggestions.

So if I'm more curmudgeonly than usual this coming week, just consider it an outlier--an unstandard deviation from the norm. I'll get my good humor back when we move on to the next lab that studies the reproductive potential of wingstem--actual plants gathered from the real woods.

Think about how stupid the average person is; now realize half of them are dumber than that. -- George Carlin