I've been using "Statistics: Concepts and Controversies" by Moore for a
couple of years now and have been happy with it. Lots of exercises that
are of the form: "What do you think about this claim?"
Since I teach under the title "Introduction to Research Methods", and know
that my students are required to take a statistics course, I focus on the
first half of the text adding some depth. (I also use Stanovich's "How to
Think Straight about Psychology" which is a low level reader that puts
many of the issues from Moore's text into a psychology context.)
I would like to know if there are any other "how to read research" texts
out there. All I seem to be able to find are dumbed down "how to do
research" texts.
Michael
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Robert J. MacG. Dawson wrote:
> Can anybody out there who is teaching (or has recently taught) a
> stats course at the first year level aimed specifically at non-science
> students send me - either by direct mail or through the group, at your
> discretion - a brief curriculum/course outline ?
>
> What I have in mind is a course intended more to train students to read
> papers that use statistics - at a fairly elementary level, and perhaps
> with some faith in the refereeing process - than to write such papers
> themselves.
>
> -Robert Dawson
>
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