Re: [asa] An Idea for Lay Education

I decided long ago if I ever speak to high schoolers on science/faith issues I would start with
the dice central limit theorem demostration I use in my intro behavioral stats class. It forms a
nice model for a Christian who believes God is providencially in control of the individual dice
throws, yet also providing us with a mathmatical law that allows us to predict the pattern of
large numbers of throws. That same theorem is forms the basis for a large number of statistical
tests used to intepret experimental data.

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Louise M. Freeman, PhD
Psychology Dept
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VA 24401
540-887-7326
FAX 540-887-7121

-----Original Message-----
From: JLR173rdNY@aol.com
To: asa@calvin.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:15:33 EDT
Subject: Re: [asa] An Idea for Lay Education

> As someone who now teaches high school math, the idea of a Sunday
> school
> program on statistics is interesting - uh, Statistics from a Christian
> Perspective? In Texas Statistics is a senior year class, taken after
> Algebra 2. The
> people who teach the class look at as part of literacy - to understand
> what
> political polls really mean - and how they can be skewed, to really be
> able to
> look at financial statistics in the newspaper - it is a lot harder to
> fool
> people who have some sense of how to handle data.
>
> Janet Rice
>
>
>
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