[BlindRUG] BlindRUG Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1

[Robin Williams]

I agree entirely with this. There is no skill in reading from a statistical table, nor is it useful in any meaningful practical setting. In fact I would argue that better understanding of probability distributions will be developed by learning to use the appropriate functions in R.

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Hello Amy,

Finding our way around a large table (even in a spreadsheet) takes us much longer than the equivalent actions taken by sighted people who can scan quickly down a column.

I struggle with the over-use of old solutions that were good for their time but inferior in a modern context. Sighted students have been able to use their scientific calculators for years so why should teaching staff push their blind students back into the 20th century.

Jonathan


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Hello Jonathan,

Thank you for your response. As a blind person in a society that often has low expectations, it's hard to know whether using a calculator or R is an excuse to not learn the skill of reading the Z table. Like some blind people have people take class notes for them because they can't read and write independently. I suppose you're saying this is a case where blindness actually does make it harder?

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