by Nyaradzo Mvududu
Two groups in random selection
The differences under inspection
On an interval scale
And a test with one tail
The hypothesis suffers rejection
Students learn the ideas of hypothesis testing in an activity where they guess which of three sodas is the different one.
by Lawrence Mark Lesser
He asks, “How can you mix social justice with teaching statistics?”
I’m thinking: how can you not?
How better to illuminate
deviation from expected values?
He says, “But it’s not neutral.”
Like it’s natural and neutral to teach from books
based on baseball, playing cards, and flatscreen TVs
rather than view by neighborhood things like
incidence of asthma or
incidents of racial profiling.
We’ve been testing
a null that dulls
by what’s normalized
as if the type
1 error
is always worse.
When he says social justice is beyond our scope,
I want to ask: do you mean
our discipline or
our humanity?
Jan: I predict conventional p-value usage will decrease.
Lainie: You sound like a psychic.
Jan: How so?
Lainie: The "p" should be silent!
Larry Lesser