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In 1972, he moved back to the University of Tennessee, his alma mater, where he began running a center that did statistical analysis for agricultural-research scientists. Says Sanders, "Those people were constantly trying for better ways to take performance data, and to better partition genetic influences from environmental influences, such that they could improve the breeding efficiencies of plants and animals."
So agriculture, as he explains it, is a breeding ground for statistical innovation. A joke in the field goes, "Statistics was raised and reared on the farm." Still, when Mr. Sanders started claiming to see parallels in education, critics sometimes lampooned his background. |