I tell them that in intro statistics, they will
learn ways to calculate the likelihood that the chance explanation is correct
(and if it turns out to be quite unlikely, say
Really, at Humboldt the Psyc students
learn Bayesian inference? Might you really mean the likelihood of
getting data
Thanks for all the helpful responses so far. I am sharing these with a
couple of colleagues. I hope this will not be a problem for anyone. Let me know
if it is.
Nancy Melucci
LBCC
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Colleagues:
Some introductory psychology textbooks include a pretty detailed
explanation of descriptive and inferential statistics in the chapter
devoted to research methods (others may include it but place it in the
appendix). I never teach this material, as I am of the opinion that usuall
In my experience, college freshmen are already familiar with most of
descriptive statistics (central tendency, frequency distributions,
scatterplots) by the time they reach college, so I only mention these
in brief. I can quickly explain standard deviation as something like
an "average" distan
