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The Caitlin Clark Effect
Even if you’re not a hard-core fan of the Women’s National Basketball Association, you may have heard of the Caitlin Clark Effect. The hypothesis is that Caitlin Clark, the first pick in the 2024 WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever, … Continue reading
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Discover Stats with Kittens and Stats with Cats
Discover statistics with felines for support in my new books, Stats with Kittens and Stats with Cats. Stats with Kittens, Growing up with Data, Charts, Surveys, Correlations, and Other Floofy Playthings is aimed at readers who want to learn the … Continue reading
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The Stats with Kittens Song
The Stats with Kittens Song [Verse 1]I enrolled in math last spring like “la-di-da,”Now I’m googlin’, “what are statistics, haha?”My mind started bogglin’, thought I was screwed nowTil I opened up this book, took a look and MEOW!Yeah on each … Continue reading
Stats with Cats, 2nd Edition
The second edition of my book, Stats with Cats: The Domesticated Guide to Statistics, Models, Graphs, and Other Breeds of Data Analysis, is now available on Amazon, IngramSpark, and in bookstores Stats with Cats is aimed at readers who have … Continue reading
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Stats with Kittens
My new book, Stats with Kittens, Growing up with data, charts, surveys, correlations, and other floofy playthings, is now available on Amazon. Everybody needs to understand statistics. It’s an essential part of everyday life in America, more so than any … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, data, education, introductory statistics, jargon, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, Stats with Kittens
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Feeling Significance
The feeling you get when your statistical test is significant Continue reading
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Science and Cookies
Creating science is like making cookies—you need a recipe, ingredients, and tools to combine the ingredients and bake the dough. If you’ve ever made cookies, you know that if you use quality ingredients and follow the recipe, everything will probably … Continue reading
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When Science Goes Wrong
Science is our perception of how things work. The scientific method is how we determine what is the current state of our science. Science is the product of the successful application of the scientific method. They are not the same. … Continue reading
How to Tell if a Political Poll is Legitimate
Four things to look for. Why People Hate Polls It’s probably true that everybody has taken a survey at some point or other. What’s also probably true is that most people think polling is easy. And why not? Google has … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, frame, jargon, number of samples, politics, polls, populations, sample, sample size, statistics, stats with cats, surveys
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A Typology of Data Relationships
Nine patterns of three types of relationships that aren’t spurious. When analysts see a large correlation coefficient, they begin speculating about possible reasons. They’ll naturally gravitate toward their initial hypothesis (or preconceived notion) which set them to investigate the data relationship … Continue reading
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