By the numbers

The student newspaper at Boston University gives a nod to a class taught by Carnegie Mellon statistics instructor Michele DiPietro called "From Ten Percent to Couples Per County: The Statistics of the Gay and Lesbian Population." It's a freshman seminar course that uses a controversial and traditionally hard-to-define population to teach students the basics of statistics and statistical research. It recently was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required). DiPietro works in Carnegie Mellon's Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence.

I'd also be remiss if I failed to note that Education Week did not one but two articles this week about Carnegie Mellon. The one I failed to mention in my previous post was about computational thinking. 

Jonathan Potts