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REAL WORLD APPLICATION
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Any advice for instructors teaching stats?
Students learn best when teachers share their
enthusiasm for a topic. We have both worked in
developing countries where we were asked to design
questionnaires, train enumerators to go door-to-
door to collect data, and then analyze and report
the results to policymakers and practitioners. In
each country, our enumerators visited anywhere
from 5,000 to 70,000 households or businesses
to collect data, often with many challenges—
visiting remote mountain villages, understanding
cultural norms, or rewriting questionnaires in multiple
languages for countries where up to 200 dialects are
spoken! All of this gives us an appreciation for how
exciting and rewarding the fi eld can be and we hope
that we pass on this enthusiasm to our students.
Don't
miss
Lisa
Daniels
and
Nicholas
Minot's
text,
An
Introduction
to
Statistics
and
Data
Analysis
Using
Stata
®
,
on
page
47.
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