TIPSters:
It's an old idea, but perhaps worth mentioning in response to this thread
about teaching some statistics in intro. I use the analogy of a criminal
court proceeding for which the evidence is circumstantial rather than
physical. The null hypothesis is that the defendant is not guilty,
Dave Hogberg posted to TIPS:
. . . As I recall, the students' median test score on an
open-book exam was lower than that of a regular hour exam.
...
I too have consistently observed (in my statistics course) that students
take more time to complete examinations when allowed to take the test
, resist
Mike Tagler's direct question re: teaching statistics with Excel! I
encourage you to ask your Thomson/Wadsworth rep for a desk copy.
Ken Rosenberg
Professor
Department of Psychology
SUNY/Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
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Tipsters:
The following paragraph is what I tell students about the practical
considerations of applying one-tail tests. Other than my own personal
impressions (and some experience with journal editors!) I have no concrete
basis for passing on this bias to students. I thought I would bounce
I am trying to track down a formula that will accept degrees of freedom
and the computed value of a Pearson r and output the p value for the
statistic. In Excel, there are paste functions for other statistics (FINV
outputs the p value for the F statistic, CHIINV outputs the p value for
chi
