Comments on: Ickily statisticky http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2005/09/23/ickily-statisticky Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Thu, 17 May 2012 22:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Robert http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2005/09/23/ickily-statisticky/comment-page-1#comment-91 Robert Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:14:22 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/?p=88#comment-91 I do not teach. But I thought of a way that teaching statistics could be changed over, say, the last 25 years. Perhaps one might organize a class around resampling or bootstrap methods with simulated data. I don't know if this would lead to improved understanding by students, although I guess Julian Simon used to claim it did. I doubt that is why there is the variation in textbooks that you have seen. But that is one option on the plate of teaching methods that probably wasn't available 25 years ago, given the computing power of the time. I do not teach. But I thought of a way that teaching statistics could be changed over, say, the last 25 years. Perhaps one might organize a class around resampling or bootstrap methods with simulated data. I don’t know if this would lead to improved understanding by students, although I guess Julian Simon used to claim it did.

I doubt that is why there is the variation in textbooks that you have seen. But that is one option on the plate of teaching methods that probably wasn’t available 25 years ago, given the computing power of the time.

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