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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by DoofusOfDeath on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:01PM (#20898731)
> It seems like an education fail to me.

I know a lot of people have trouble thinking clearly and correctly about probability and statistical inference.

But do we know if, practically speaking, that can be addressed by a modified educational curriculum?

Or are these concepts that would take an extraordinary amount of effort for many persons to understand well?

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Re:Statisticians want to abandon science’s standard measure ... by TallGuyShort on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:18PM (#20900391)
They're nuanced concepts that are easily misunderstood, but in a typical US public school, statistical significance (or anything beyond basic descriptive statistics) is not typically part of the curriculum[1]. It's a hard problem to effectively educate out of existence but right now we're not even really trying.

[1] source: I never saw it as a student, and I've consulted with math teachers (well, administrators, about math) in multiple states, and I've never had it come up there either.

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