Charts & Graphs
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A nice summary on mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation from Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences from Heiman. Continue reading
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Researching my health statistics class, and found this great walk-through of the issues of sensitivity and specificity in medical test design and interpretation. Clear, easy to read, and suitable for everyone. Everyone that gets medical tests done or will get medical tests done (which, let’s face it, is everyone) should be familiar with this stuff, but it’s Continue reading
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I’ve been playing around with cognitive disfluency in slide design for my class lately, trying to solve a conundrum. The problem is this — we know from research that reading materials that introduce “desirable difficulties” (such as presenting information in a difficult to read font) are recalled better than reading materials with a cleaner, more Continue reading
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Klout wins for this year’s stupidest bar chart
Check it out here: http://blog.infoadvisors.com/index.php/2011/12/22/stupidest-bar-chart-of-2011-congrats-klout/ I’m not sure how you trust a company who claims to have some super-secret statistical insight when they put out things like this. Continue reading
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I don’t think you can call it remediation anymore when 1/3 of your students require it. At some point the problem is not the students or the high schools, but that we’ve built a higher education system based on false assumptions about who our students are and what they have when they get here. Our Continue reading
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From Klein’s The student debt crisis in one chart (article here) Continue reading
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Inequality and economic growth. From the IMF, which I hope is using this to rethink its approach… Continue reading
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