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> maybe, just maybe, middle-schoolers are not ready to appreciate the complex interplay between overlapping Gauss curves, path dependence, self-fulfilling proph
by d33 9y ago
> maybe, just maybe, middle-schoolers are not ready to appreciate the complex interplay between overlapping Gauss curves, path dependence, self-fulfilling prophecies
I'd say that only applies if you want it to. Otherwise, are you suggesting that there's a specific age which one needs to reach in order to grok basics of statistics?
- pas 9y agoNo, I'm just stating the current reality of lack of basic rationality in education, which makes young people especially susceptible to drawing the wrong (sometimes literally fatal) conclusions from events that they experience, information they hear/read/see.