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Your gender-related analysis is a bit incomplete. You should state that you're only including records for which gender is specified. - Overall, 20.4% of the r
by mtVessel 12y ago
Your gender-related analysis is a bit incomplete. You should state that you're only including records for which gender is specified.
- Overall, 20.4% of the records have an unknown or unspecified gender, for which the average grade is 84%.
- Every class has between 6-29% with unspecified genders. In four of the courses, there are more unknowns than the difference between male and females.
A more interesting analysis (to me) is completion and grade vs. engagement, which they're clearly trying to track by including data about student events. I'm not sure how to approach this. On first glance, it seems that for some courses, it's equally likely a student in the top 10% of engagement (going by # days student interacted with site), will have achieved either a spectacularly high or low grade.
Maybe it's time I take one of those Data Science courses, myself.
- watwut 12y agoOn gender: are those meaningful differences? Does it make sense for me to ponder about why those with unspecified gender have better results?
- nl 12y agoNot really. The differences aren't very large, and there are pretty obvious causes. Clearly the big variations in gender enrollment rate (and the likely different pass rates) and presumably the different pass rates is almost certain to be the biggest cause.
- minimaxir 12y agoA 1% difference is not likely to be statistically significant.