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Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

  • By Jess Hartnett
  • Based in United States of America
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Most recent posts

An interactive that gets your students thinking about medians, percentiles, and their own sleeping habits.
My students struggle with sleeping and are distracted by electronics. This interactive activity allows them to think about their sleep relative to norms regarding age and sex. It also dives deeply into how sleep changes …
On , by Jessica Hartnett, 153 words
Uncrustables consumption rate by NFL teams 1) do not vary by league, 2) do not correlate with 2023 wins
Many thanks to Dr. Sara Appleby for sharing this data with me!!I really enjoy silly data, like this one from Jayson Jenks, writing for The Athletic, which shows how many Uncrustables each team eats per …
On , by Jessica Hartnett, 170 words
Subways! Murder! Absolute vs. relative risk!
When I teach the basics of probability in Intro Stats, I always emphasize absolute vs. risk. I am delighted to have a brand new example. Thanks to Sy Islam for sending it my way.Here is …
On , by Jessica Hartnett, 158 words