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3 hours ago Janet Downs said, in response to 'Oversubscription is touted as a sign of popularity, but is it?', "Rebecca - TES this week carried an article saying that statistics skills predict education success. I'm a statistics novice (my copy of "Statistics for Dummies" remains unread) but I ..."