Présentation de l'éditeur
It is the teachers obligation to make his laboratory exercises of interest to those whom he asks to take part in them, and to couple them with concrete business, industrial and social experiences. The make-work problems to which students are too often assigned, as part of their laboratory work, not only fail to arouse intellectual interest, but have the effect of divorcing the laboratory from the life which the student is living. They are too often looked upon as tasks or penalties, rather than as opportunities to take part in explaining, illustrating, and smnmarizing data which have to be manipulated before they can be used as bases for business and social judgments. Laboratory problems should be chosen from business and social fields, and should include topics in which the student himself has an interest, and which he would be willing and eager to study statistically, in order more fully to imderstand. It is not diflS cult to select problems of this character and to secure data relating to them. In no other single problem, in the writers experience as a teacher, has so much interest been developed on the part of his students in statistics, as in the study of expenditures for food at a local cafeteria. Theater tickets, types of business buildings, real estate valuations, show window decorations, classified advertisements, types of news items, stock and bond quotations, money rates, etc., all lend themselves to statistical treatment and arouse statistical interest. The writer has never been at a loss to find problems which create interest and which are worthy of study. It is, therefore, with considerable hesitation that socalled Review Problems have been included in this book.
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