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Tim Hitchcock
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Emeritus Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
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The irony is that it WAS taught; but was gradually dropped from the undergraduate curriculum in the 1990s and 2000s. In 1989, at PNL the mandatory first year course included Excel, Access, Hypercard and Word.
And fifteen years before that, one of the first books I was assigned as an undergraduate in the mid-70s was How to Lie with Statistics. It feels like we have forgotten a lot of what we used to teach.
I don't think I had a single quantitative lesson across all 3 degrees (2002-2014).
Whatever happened to Databases for Historians?
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Tim Hitchcock
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Emeritus Professor of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
947 followers951 following102 posts