> Stepping back, it’s interesting to see a homework question where there’s no unambiguously correct answer. This is sending a message that statistics is more li

> Stepping back, it’s interesting to see a homework question where there’s no unambiguously correct answer. This is sending a message that statistics is more like social science than like math, which could be valuable in itself—as long as it is made clear to students and teachers that this is the case. I think I agree with this sentiment but not the specific wording if taken literally. There is one "unambiguously correct answer" but it happens to be problematic in practice. The others are all "unambiguously incorrect" but possibly usable for a weaker result. Also statistics is much more like math than social science where it's important to be precise and correct and not qualitative hand-wavy reasoning.