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Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

  • By Jess Hartnett
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly one post per week
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Most recent posts

Whataburger Index: Operationalizing power outages in hurricane ravaged Texas.
As a stats nerd, I love it when clever people make lives easier by finding clever, easy, indirect ways to estimate the thing they want to measure. As a statistics instructor, I find such examples …
On , by Jessica Hartnett, 407 words
Predictions are only as good as the regularity of the event
Weather prediction is data. This makes weather data-related stories and examples highly relatable.The Washington Post published an interactive article that lets you see how accurate weather predictions are for a given city in the United …
On , by Jessica Hartnett, 344 words
Statistical thinking: What data would you need to collect to disprove the predictive power of astrological signs?
Okay. I haven't used this in class yet because it is July, and I just found it. However. I think I will open the Fall 2024 semester with this example. It is fun and accessible …
On , by Jessica Hartnett, 301 words