Posted by
Hector Maletta on
Jan 24, 2007; 2:01pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Help-with-Binary-Logistic-Regression-tp1073387p1073397.html
You're probably right. The urban legend refers to a Dr Cooper,
introducer of aerobic exercise and still living, not to J.Fixx who advocated
jogging. I mistakenly wrote about aerobism when I should have written
jogging. My example was right after all.
Hector
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De: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:
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Wasserman
Enviado el: 24 January 2007 02:16
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Asunto: Re: Einstein (OT); was, re: Help with Binary Logistic Regression
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
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From: "Hector Maletta" <
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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:
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nombre de
> Richard Ristow
> Enviado el: 23 January 2007 21:54
> Para:
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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.
>
> We now return you to SPSS and statistical matters.
>