[ABE-L] Fwd: ASA Connect Digest for Thursday June 18, 2020

Sáb Jun 20 15:09:35 -03 2020

Vocês estão acompanhando essa discussão sobre o Fisher? Parece que a ASA
resolveu mudar o nome do Fisher Award. Três nomes importantes da
estatística (Fisher, Pearson e Galton) no meio dessas discussões sobre
movimentos eugenistas. Triste realidade.

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2. Re: COPSS Fisher Award
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Jun 18, 2020 9:43 AM
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I would like to offer another perspective on this decision, and make a
request of the ASA leadership. First of all, while I deplore the concept of
eugenics, I had misgivings about this decision. My reasoning was expressed
by a previous commenter; we are essentially judging someone born in the 19th
century by 21st century ethical standards. This is a tough bar for anyone
to pass! However, a decision has now been made, and I encourage my fellow
ASA members to support it, as I do, in the interests of "moving forward to
form a more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive society," in the words
of Ron Wasserstein.

While supporting this decision, it should be obvious to all of us that
there will be more decisions of a similar nature to be made in the future.
As I look around the country, and even the world, there are numerous
statues and monuments being torn down, as well as buildings and awards
being renamed. As an aside, it is a bit shocking that it took this long to
tear down confederate monuments, but that is not my point today. Rather, my
point is that from my perspective, many of these decisions have been made
as "one-offs," in an isolated manner, often driven by emotion or the latest
news headlines.

As a professional society that prides itself on objectivity, I would think
that we, the ASA, should be guided in such decisions by sound ethical
principles, which could be documented, debated, and modified over time. In
fact, we do have ethical guidelines for statistical practice, but I don't
think they answer the question of ex post facto guilt. For example, article
11, paragraph 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights> provides
that "no person be held guilty of any criminal law that did not exist at
the time of offence, nor suffer any penalty heavier than what existed at
the time of offence." Of course, we are not talking about criminal law
here, but I think the ex post facto principle is still relevant.

In short, while supporting the current decision on renaming the R.A. Fisher
Award, I am calling on ASA leadership to consider documentation of
principles to be used to guide future decisions on renaming of awards,
lectures, buildings, or statistics departments. These should be shared with
the membership for input and debate, of course, and modified over time as
necessary. I would be happy to help in any way that I could.

Sincerely, Roger

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Roger W. Hoerl
Manager, Applied Statistics Lab
GE Global Research
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-15-2020 08:03
From: Ronald Wasserstein
Subject: COPSS Fisher Award

Dear Colleagues,
The leadership of the ASA has recommended to the awarding organization –
COPSS – that the R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship be retired and that this
year's award be retitled. There is no principle of greater value than the
principle of strengthening the statistical community by moving forward to
form a more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive society. We are
committed to future diversity and inclusion across the generations in the
statistics profession.

We celebrate and commend the outstanding accomplishments of past award
recipients and especially this year's recipient, Kathryn Roeder. She richly
deserves to be and will be appropriately honored at JSM, and we look
forward to her lecture.

Ron

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Ron Wasserstein
Executive Director
The American Statistical Association
Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics
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C. R. Rao was Fisher's Ph. D. student. He will turn 100 this September. It
is a good idea to ask him about Fisher.

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J. Rao
Carleton University
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-17-2020 23:12
From: Kenneth Burnham
Subject: COPSS Fisher Award

Before such a change ask C.R. Rao and D.R. Cox about Fisher and racism.
They should have direct knowledge on the matter.

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Kenneth Burnham
Colorado State University

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