Posted by
Hector Maletta on
Jan 24, 2007; 1:59am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Help-with-Binary-Logistic-Regression-tp1073387p1073395.html
I stand corrected. The point was, however, that he was denied access
to the Universitat and had to go to the Hochschule, due to negative reports
from his high school teachers. He was also a rather erratic teenager, e.g.
taking a year out of school to wander in a bike through the country, not the
usual mark of an overachiever.
By the way, I had been informed by a list member that the aerobism
inventor did not die while exercising: his supposed death is apparently just
another urban legend.
So much for my examples, of which only Winston Churchill survives.
Fortunately, my point did not depend on those particular (and avowedly
poorly researched) examples.
Hector
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De: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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Enviado el: 23 January 2007 21:54
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Asunto: Einstein (OT); was, re: Help with Binary Logistic Regression
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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