We Need to Talk About Statistics - Neil Sheldon, Teaching Statistics Trust
Alan Turing Institute via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
The Teaching Statistics Trust
Teaching Statistics
Statistics
Data science and statistics
Understanding the real world
Statistical understanding
The hold of the story
The average
The distribution
Why does this matter
The spurious precision
The skewed distribution
Healthy weight
Quantity variation
Another warning
Typical result
Average Australian woman
People are confused
Why we get the jobs
Helen MacGillivray
Language of significance
Statistics of grading
A true story
Language significance
Outlier
Outliers
Significant results
Conditional probability
Matching DNA
Sally Clark
Why do we do this
Different forms of inference
Argument from effect
Taught by
Alan Turing Institute