Word: verba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Verba points out that pure math and science classes often require special knowledge and abilities that the social science and humanities don't, putting extra pressure on a non-science concentrator who has to take a standard chemistry or physics course...
...There is a way in which social sciences and humanities are more accessible to scientists than science is to humanists and social scientists," Verba says. "I've been told by physicists that I'll never understand what they are talking about, and I accept that...
...Verba admits that "it's probably true" that the science classes in the Core are not very "science-y" but that students still learn a great deal from them...
...were concerned about adding more classes. We didn't want to expand the requirements but we felt it was needed," Verba says. "There is almost nothing in the contemporary world that doesn't revolve around understanding statistics, probability, and inference. It's really an important area to make as an area of education...
...things in other fields without putting that much in, and end up with an unbalanced education," Verba says...