teaching statistics to people who (think they) hate statistics: tips for overcoming statistics...
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Teaching Statistics To People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
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Neil J. Salkind, Ph.D. Author and Professor Emeritus,
University of Kansas
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1. Reducing Statistics Anxiety2. Understanding Relationships and the Ice Cream Deal3. Understanding Hypotheses4. Significance (Yikes)
Today’s Talk
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• No joke on the previous cartoon.• Help from study groups and if necessary, help
schedule even taking time from class. • My availability before and after class.• Online assistance as necessary.• Noting other students’ success.
Reducing Statistics Anxiety
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Understanding Relationships and the Ice Cream Deal
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Understanding Relationships and the Ice Cream Deal
• Discussing simple positive and negative correlations with scattergrams as illustrations.
• Understanding the nature of relationships and how variables share something in common.
• Interpreting simple correlations– Follow the rules– Eyeballing is usually best
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A Simple Scattergram A Perfect Direct or Positive Correlation
Understanding Relationships and the Ice Cream Deal
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A Strong but Not Perfect Direct Relationship
A Strong but Not Perfect Indirect Relationship
Understanding Relationships and the Ice Cream Deal
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Understanding Relationships and the Ice Cream Deal
Teach students to trust their intuition.
Eyeballing is usually best.
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Understanding Hypotheses: What They Are And How They Work
The definition of hypotheses
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Understanding Hypotheses: What They Are And How They Work
What it looks like…
What it says…
Who it applies to?
What’s really important…
Null Hypothesis
Ho: μ1=μ2 Equality Population Indirectly tested
Research Hypothesis
H1: m1≠m2 Lack of equality
Samples Directly tested
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Significance (Yikes)
All about the normal distribution and the idea of chance. If there’s a 100% chance of rain, it’s raining. And, there’s never a 0% chance of raining (or anything else for that matter).
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Number of Heads Probability0 1/1,024 or .001
1 10/1,024 or .01
2 45/1,024 or .05
3 120/1,2024 or 12
4 210/1,024 or .21
5 245/1,024 or .24
6 210/1,024 or .21
7 120/1,024 or .12
8 45/1,024 or .05
9 10/1,024 or .01
10 1/1,024 or .001
• Flipping coins• Pascal’s triangle• The binomial
distribution
Significance (Yikes)
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The concept of significance
Significance (Yikes)
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Significance (Yikes)
The Central Limit Theorem 1
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Significance (Yikes)
The Central Limit Theorem 2
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Significance (Yikes)
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• Significance versus Meaningfulness• The relationship between intelligence and shoe size.
Surely statistically significant but not meaningful.
Significance (Yikes)
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The Eight Magic Steps1. Set the null2. Set alpha3. Select the appropriate test statistic4. Compute the obtained value5. Determine the critical value6. Compare obtained value to critical value7. If obtained value>critical value null cannot be accepted8. If critical value>obtained value null is best explanation
Significance (Yikes)
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Significance (Yikes)
You can assign a probability to any event, but whether or not that event is meaningful is up to you, based on the rules you apply.
Significance (Yikes)
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