re: "Half the schools are below average" - not always true

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Don't worry. If you'd ever like to rap about stats I'm down, and do have a MS in it....there are several other posters here that know their shite too. Just Ignore him.

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Yeah. I definitely enjoy these discussions. My university offered graduate students in other fields a minor or an MS in statistics. I ended up getting the MS because I liked the courses, think it is a great skill set to have, and it makes me more marketable in my own field. And although I feel competent enough to identify inaccuracies and misrepresentations (e.g., Tuba in this thread), I realize that I am far less knowledgeable and experienced in many of these areas compared to you and other posters (Taxing Authority seems to know a lot about complex modeling). Anyways, it's usually a good learning experience.