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Created: September 22, 2003
Latest Update: September 22, 2003
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Commentary of the Importance of Numbers
to Our Understanding of Answerability and Governance

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, September 2003.
"Fair use" encouraged.

These comments are based on the series of files that begins with The Importance of Numbers in our understanding of answerability and governance.

On Thursday, September 18, 2003, Quan Banks, CSUDH, wrote:

Perspective is how you look at things. peoples' perspectives are different. their perspectives are shaped depending on many factors, like who taught them or where they're from. i have a perspective on higher education and higher paying jobs. it's not what you know, it's the methods you need to know to get computers or other machines to come up with your answer. An example is the SPSS program; its files give you all the numbers/answers. what you need to know are the procedures to analyze and compare the numbers and see how they all relate to one another.

Good point, Quan. I like the way you went from defining perspective to sharing one of your own perspectives, and then linking that back into the importance of interpretation in statistics. An A submission. jeanne