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The burnt matchstick
Author(s) -
Passaretti Davide,
Vistocco Domenico
Publication year - 2017
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/test.12128
Subject(s) - sampling (signal processing) , psychology , statistics , mathematics education , econometrics , mathematics , computer science , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
Summary In an informal study, two versions of a story involving probability are introduced to undergraduates. The findings reveal that students have troubles detecting equal probabilities in a sampling scheme without replacement in which no information on earlier draws is available.