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

Posted by David Wasserman on Jan 24, 2007; 5:16am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Help-with-Binary-Logistic-Regression-tp1073387p1073396.html

If you were referring to Jim Fixx, whose "Complete Book of Running"
propelled jogging to new heights of popularity, he did die of a heart attack
at 52.  I remember reading the news stories at the time, and I have found no
on-line resources to contradict it.  If you're referring to someone else, I
can't help restore your example.

David Wasserman
Custom Data Analysis and SPSS Programming

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hector Maletta" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: Einstein (OT); was, re: Help with Binary Logistic Regression

>        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
>
>
>        -----Mensaje original-----
> De: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] En nombre de
> Richard Ristow
> Enviado el: 23 January 2007 21:54
> Para: [hidden email]
> 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.
>
>        We now return you to SPSS and statistical matters.
>