If you had to find a book called "The Dictionary of Statistical Terms", would you look under social sciences, or under math? Why? Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
OK, that's creepy. I had exactly 519.503. She said it's in 310.3. I tried to argue about it, but she'd have none of it. She said, "If you take a statistics course, it usually says statistics for social sciences."
My first thought was "math", but I vaguely remembered that there was a statistics section in the social sciences. But checking on Wikipedia, I noticed that the numbers for social sciences general statistical method seem to no longer be used. The stuff that's left is all obviously statistical data for various regions. Statistics as a discipline seemed likely to be in the 519s.
So then I googled the name of the book. Found one that was The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, and a couple websites gave the Dewey Decimal number as 519.503.
Of course, the main reason I posted that was because I thought you were anti-Dewey Decimal, so I was teasing you.
Well, I kinda am anti-Dewey, only because there are like four libraries that still use it (other than community libraries, who generally don't do their own cataloging anyway)...but I'm much more anti-my-professor right now. GAH.
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My first thought was "math", but I vaguely remembered that there was a statistics section in the social sciences. But checking on Wikipedia, I noticed that the numbers for social sciences general statistical method seem to no longer be used. The stuff that's left is all obviously statistical data for various regions. Statistics as a discipline seemed likely to be in the 519s.
So then I googled the name of the book. Found one that was The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms, and a couple websites gave the Dewey Decimal number as 519.503.
Of course, the main reason I posted that was because I thought you were anti-Dewey Decimal, so I was teasing you.
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