I am now covering my ears and singing "la la la la ... I can't hear you!"
Chris ----- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada [email protected] On Sep 28, 2012, at 5:43 PM, "Wuensch, Karl L" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not the greatest fan of NHST, but do my duty to teach it. For a > good while now I have been disturbed that a substantial proportion of my > undergraduate students never figure out how to decide whether or not a test > is significant. I tried stressing that p is a measure of the goodness of fit > between the data and the null, that p is like the strength of evidence in > support of the accused null defendant in statistical court, and so on. > Nothing seemed to help much. > > Now one of my teaching assistants has discovered why. Given two numbers, > these students are unable to identify which is smaller. No, I am not > kidding. Yes, this involves numbers between 0 and 1. My TA spend half an > hour trying to teach them how to tell which is the smaller of two numbers, > without great success. > > Karl W. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=20768 > or send a blank email to > leave-20768-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=20773 or send a blank email to leave-20773-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
