Two sort of standalone lectures in one power packed exciting stats class. OK, it is theoretical stats, it is not that interesting…. Still, this stuff is good to know.
Music “Waiting” by Luke Sneyd
[tags]Dave brodbeck, Statistics, Psychology, Post-hoc tests, transformations, ANOVA,Algmao University[/tags]
Never mind inches or logarithms–do they know what a slide rule is?
Oh, well–I guess they do. (I didn’t have to use one either, but neither was I allowed to use a calculator.)
Hey Rachel. The sad thing is, though no fault of their own, the students have been deprived of some really basic math. The math behind stats is really quite beautiful, and actually, not that complicated (even the calculus). However, too many students don’t end up getting calculus any more.
Oh and yeah, calculators are great, but when it interferes with basic math knowledge it becomes a problem.
I know–when I was in school, they taught algebra (ninth grade), geometry (10th grade–I loved that), advanced algebra & trigonometry (11th grade), and calculus (optional, 12th grade). A few years after I graduated, they switched over to some sort of horrible mishmash of everything every year, with the result that no one learned anything. I believe they are switching back now, though, to discrete subjects. I will say though, that I had a terrible teacher for calculus, so I didn’t learn it at all. I regret it severely every time I try to teach myself physics, it’s like trying to learn a musical instrument without being able to read musical notation.
It’s sort of amazing, hand-held calculators today do more than the computers that they used to send man to the moon…But, then, I don’t have to pick one up to add two numbers together.