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Should We Still Install Matched Pairs of RAM?

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2 When I say "still", I'm not actually talking about current generation Macs. I'm specifically talking about 2012's. Is there still benefit to installing matched pairs or are those days long gone? I have two 2012 Macs with 4 GB each. I just got my hands on 8 GB from a 2012 iMac. So the question is, which Mac do I upgrade to 8 GB? ...but I could also do 2 GB + 4 GB in each Mac, bringing each Mac to 6 GB. Way back when, it was always said to install in matched pairs, otherwise the RAM run's "slow". But is this still the case by 2012? Even if it is true, just how much slower is it? It still may be worthwhile to run unmatched pairs to get an extra 2 GB in each machine. macbook memory mac-mini

Published papers for Intro Stat students to read

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3 1 $begingroup$ I am looking for studies and experiments in the literature that I can share with undergraduate students in an intro statistics course. I do not expect students to understand everything, and I plan to only have them read the abstract or other short excerpts and then discuss. They must be reasonably readable papers and apply concepts from introductory statistics (experimental design principles, confidence intervals, p-values, linear regression, etc). I would like to collect some examples where the conclusions are strong and others that are flawed. I would also prefer subject matter that is important and useful. undergraduate-education reference-request examples statistics big-list share | imp