It is argued that examinations in Statistics are used – whether intended or not – as a means to kick-out unqualified students from the faculties of social and behavioral sciences. In a vehement rejoinder such a thesis is rejected. Copyright The Author(s) 2008

For testing normality we investigate the power of several tests, first of all, the well known test of Jarque and Bera (1980) and furthermore the tests of Kuiper (1960) and Shapiro and Wilk (1965) as well as tests of Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Cramer-von Mises type. The tests on normality are based,...