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Keeping Statistics Honest: How Not to Lie with Statistics
Keeping Statistics Honest: How Not to Lie with Statistics 150 150 Deborah

Overview:  Statistics Are Not Lies The use of statistics has really gotten a bad name.  No less a personage than Mark Twain once said something about lies and statistics, and…

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How to Read Research Articles for Science
How to Read Research Articles for Science 150 150 Deborah

Overview: Format for Busy Researchers Research articles that appear in scientific journals follow a specific format, so that busy scientists can find the information they need quickly and easily.  Articles…

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How to Write a Simple Survey
How to Write a Simple Survey 150 150 Deborah

Overview:  What Is a Survey? Surveys usually measure interests, attitudes, and preferences.  They are most useful as a starting point for future research, and can be written in order to add…

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Cognitive Friday: Maximizing Learning Styles
Cognitive Friday: Maximizing Learning Styles 150 150 Suzanne

A learning style inventory is an assessment that shows people the modes in which they learn best. It is not an assessment in the common high-stakes sense of the word,…

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Priming and Decision-Making
Priming and Decision-Making 150 150 Suzanne

The psychological phenomenon of priming affects a number of mental processes. Priming is like an advanced notification system, however a person is receiving notifications that affect what they think and…

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Cognitive Fridays: Priming and its Effects
Cognitive Fridays: Priming and its Effects 150 150 Suzanne

Priming is one of the most common influences upon students, and possibly one of the least discussed. Priming is a psychological reality of life – we are all primed in…

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Core Intuitions – Why We Are All Smart
Core Intuitions – Why We Are All Smart 150 150 Suzanne

Educators have been influenced by the theory of multiple intelligences for a few decades now. This theory, which was developed by Howard Gardner in 1983, suggests that we all have…

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Stem-and-Leaf Plots
Stem-and-Leaf Plots 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Data can be represented in a number of ways. In statistics, stem-and-leaf plot is a device to represent data in graphical form similar to histogram. The data in the stem-and-leaf…

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How to Do a Box-and-Whisker Plot
How to Do a Box-and-Whisker Plot 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

In statistics, various measures are used to describe data set without listing all the data. Measures of spread are given by range, variation and standard deviation. Description of shapes are…

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Understanding Quartiles, Median and Interquartile Range
Understanding Quartiles, Median and Interquartile Range 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

In statistics, quartiles are three points that divide the data set into four equal groups. Each group represents the one-fourth of the data set. First quartile (Q1), also known as…

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