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Cheating Partners, Conditional Probability and Contingency Tables
Author(s) -
Watson Jane M.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00421.x
Subject(s) - contingency table , cheating , context (archaeology) , psychology , contingency , statistical inference , statistics education , mathematics education , econometrics , statistics , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Summary Developing statistical literacy for older school students includes recognizing and interpreting conditional statements in the media. Data on couples' success in predicting whether their partners have cheated provides a motivating context for teachers to lead their students through this process.