Einstein (OT); was, re: Help with Binary Logistic Regression

Posted by Richard Ristow on Jan 24, 2007; 12:54am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Help-with-Binary-Logistic-Regression-tp1073387p1073394.html

At 01:35 PM 1/23/2007, Hector Maletta wrote:

>Another example is Albert Einstein: barely
>passing high school, was judged not to be
>university material, and only made it to a
>vocational polytechnical school,

Granted on a lot of counts, but his scientific
education was at a higher level than that. The
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich,
though the literal English of "Technische
Hochschule" is "technical high school", is a
high-level scientific institution. (In terms of
the United States educational system, "Technische
Hochschule" translates more or less as "institute
of technology", as in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology.")

The ETH had apparently not reached that level
when Einstein was there. (From the Wikipedia
article on the ETH: "In 1909, the course program
of the ETH was restructured to that of a real
university, and the ETH was granted the right to
award doctorates.") Though Einstein did study at
the ETH, his doctorate (per the Wikipedia article
on Einstein) was from the University of Zürich, in 1905.

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