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Statistical design and interpretation of experiments is not a generalist's job. It is a specialist one involving a statistician prefly.trained in the specific professional subject area. The question arises whether the newspaper article in THE HINDU is a production using part imagination and part haphazard data collection with little care for a refined definition of the statistical variables.Such articles are better pubd.by University academics who know what they write about and who take the matter seriously without just a desire to provoke a free for all controversy.

Its unfortunate that some CSR vs literacy conclusions about Vidya Vihar Pilani where BITS Pilani which is one among the top ranking universities in India today is located has been arrived at without taking into consideration that its a university campus where bulk of the population are students from across the length and breadth of the country pursuing academics and not involved in family raising activities.