Can SPSS be used entirely from a command-line interface? If so, it would
be interesting to see your students' reactions if you allowed SPSS, but
only via command-line--no mouse-clicking. In other words, required them
to submit the SPSS equivalent of do-files. This would be a way of
separating their love of SPSS (of which I am skeptical) from their love of
pretty mouse-driven GUIs (which I am hypothesizing is more the issue.)
--Chris
> On 10/15/06, Richard Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> However, I suspect that isn't the kind of thing your students were
>> complaining about! Who are these people, what is the field of study,
>> what sorts of things are they going to need to do in their future
>> careers?
>
> These are graduate students majoring in Nutrition or Epidemiology.
> They are being trained primarily for academic research. They are going
> to be expected to perform simple statistical analyses (t-test, etc.)
> and data manipulation.
>
> Raphael
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