User talk:Statisfactions/stat lead

Discipline vs. Practice
Joan's start on the lead seems like it is only about the academic discipline of stat ed; I think that we should be discussing both the discipline and the actual practice of people teaching statistic (whether or not they have anything to do with the academic discipline). Whaddya think?


 * On further thought, I've decided that the existing article lead is actually a better starting point than what Joan had provided. Her listing of areas of research would be implied by the outline of the article that Wikipedia automatically generates, and her listing of journals also does not really belong in the lead though it will be useful later on.


 * So, what I've done is I started afresh from the existing article, and put Joan's paragraph at the end. I also tried to tweak the first paragraph to include the statistics education scholarship.  I don't think in its current context that the squib about stat ed research at the end is doing much -- I think it should have a little bit more content, like a brief description of its methods and general findings. Statisfactions (talk) 05:00, 24 October 2012 (UTC)