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Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists
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Don't call things easy #759

Closed maneesha closed 3 years ago

maneesha commented 3 years ago

In the SQL databases and R episode we say that "Creating a new SQLite database with dplyr is easy." Calling things "easy" is contrary to the teaching methods used by The Carpentries where we do not want to assume a learner will find something easy.

Teebusch commented 3 years ago

Thank you, @maneesha. You are absolutely right. This needs to be fixed. Perhaps we can write something like "can be done with a single command" or "...one line of code", or remove this phrase completely.

I had a look around and it seems like the words "easy" / "easier" are used 7 times in that chapter alone, and a few more times in the other chapters. Maybe we should try to purge the word from the whole lesson while we are at it?

mobilegenome commented 3 years ago

Hi @maneesha and @Teebusch, I think this an important point and I'd be happy to take over this task if you don't mind. Before I start, I just wanted to check that you haven't started working on it, so we avoid redundancy or stepping upon another toes :)

Teebusch commented 3 years ago

Hi @mobilegenome, you are definitely more than welcome to work on this! (I have assigned you to this issue to stake your claim 😀)

fmichonneau commented 3 years ago

closed with #772