Re: [Marxism] statistics for students?

[Jon Cloke <copito61@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go to this site http://www.badscience.net/ which is run by Dr Ben Goldacre
who writes in the UK Guardian. The guy is next to obsessive about misuse of
statistics and has a wealth of current examples.

Bloke Cloke


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Michael Friedman <lycophidion@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> A friend asked me to teach a course for her this summer, titled, The Nature
> of Science. It's a masters level class in the education department at the
> City College of N.Y. The students are mostly high school science teachers.
> I've basically inherited the syllabus from my friend and modified it a
> little. I'd like to do a class on the use, misuse, abuse and non-use of
> statistics in science. Can anyone (especially you educators out there)
> suggest of an activity to do with students that would highlight how
> statistics are misused or how easy it is to skew results or something like
> that?
>
> Mike
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