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James Abdey |
Welcome to the James Abdey Show. At the LSE, attendance at lectures is not compulsory, but you’d go to this one, wouldn’t you?
“Some advice for you. University level study is very different from what you will have been used to. I’d strongly advise you to read through in your course pack what we will be going through in the lecture – not just for this course, but for all lectures. That way things will be much clearer, new things that you will be introduced to in the lecture itself.”
I wish someone had given me that advice in my first lecture.
James is an extraordinary teacher, part showman, part evangelist. He is a proper product of the LSE. Though born elsewhere, presumably raised by perfectly respectable parents, he spent his doctoral-thesis-writing-years in our Statistics department, testing hypotheses, quantifying inferential decision errors, having all sorts of fun… before being let loose on young minds come to study. The LSE can be proud of him. He is now a Course Tutor in the Statistics Department and lecturer for ST102. There is a passion in him; when he speaks it spills out of his eyes and his mouth and through his gestures into the students who are no doubt congratulating themselves on their shrewd move to study a subject at once important and sexy.
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Acknowledgements
Interview & Words by Sonja Grussendorf Photo & Video by Aperio Films (year2015)