As a premise that underlies our investigation, we suspect that an educational strategy in which statistics functions in a professional practice will work as a bridge between mathematics and some science (Figure 1); we see it as a promising approach that has received little attention in the literature.
If someone asks you for your help or advice, if you are in a teaching position relative to them (instructor, supervisor, boss), or if you are functioning in a professional capacity where advice is what's sought (i.e., accountant, manager, dentist, doctor, counselor), that's fine.
NEVER use this in a professional presentation.
"In anatomy we begin the discussion -- how the student will function as a professional, learning how to react to an uncomfortable situation, facing death and dying.
Reflective practitioners function in a certain practice, the professional situation in which they work.
Some debates heard over dinner with expatriates: whether or not heavy alcohol consumption is a good idea in such circumstances (actually, there was little dissent on this issue, but it required lengthy disquisition nonetheless); whether the nuisance of noisy generators outstrips their cooling function; why it is — not in a professional sense but in some existential sense — that we are in Chad.
The observation of groups of people functioning in a clearly defined professional or social context has been Mr. Wiseman's primary interest ever since his first film, "Titicut Follies," which exposed the workings of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts.
Worry was balanced by their own experience being reflected in the experience of others, which indicates that CPs have a function in areas that professionals by tradition control, such as in information about treatments and outcome.
