Re: [Marxism] statistics for students?

[La Sainte <lasainte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another book: Gould's THE MISMEASURE OF MAN. Gives an historical/materialist 
view. Excellent. 

Cherie


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>From: Michael Friedman <lycophidion@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jun 12, 2009 10:04 PM
>To: LaSainte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Marxism] statistics for students?
>
>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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