Means are not mean, but medians are neither here nor there. Modes are in fashion, but useless…
For those keeping score at home, so far the film recommendations in the class are Idiocracy and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
Music “My Own Flag” by Less Than Jake
Powerpoint slides
This is a very good refresher for me–I haven’t had to think about this since my own “Statistics for Social Sciences” course at Cornell, and don’t remember much, so extra thanks!
Was the word you were looking for “laudatory”?
I do beleive I was more ‘on’ during that lecture than I have been in a while. Must be the room. Either that or the need to try to make stats fun…
Well, it’s pretty much working, for me–and I HATED stats the first time around. (The prof figured no social scientists would be able to master math anyway, so dumbed it all down to the extent of inducing catatonia.) But I’m enjoying this!