Psychology professor: Applied statistics should be taught only by the various social science departments  These departments can best teach their respective students which statistical methodologies are most useful for their discipline, and how best to interpret collected data and the results of experiments  Mathematics professor: I disagree  My applied statistics course covers much of the same material taught in the applied statistics courses in social science departments
In fact, my course uses exactly the same textbook as those courses
The response does not effectively address a key reason given in support of the psychology professor's position.