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In this exclusive 0th episode of #StatsChats, Hanna and Milan take a deep dive into the topics of standard deviation, variance, and sampling distribution.
Content warning: Some really bad MS paint drawing
In which Jennifer and Milan talk about the sampling distribution with some philosphy of science thrown in for a good measure before things get derailed into talking about nerd things
In which Jennifer with her awesome crest and Milan with his luscious locks answer your questions about distributions, degrees of freedom, and look ahead to hypothesis testing, with some meandering digressions about archery, cross-stitching, the dark origins of statistics, and why we love teaching research methods
In which Jennifer and Milan answer your questions about Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and talk about why the framework is deeply flawed as well as why you have to understand it. Obligatory tangents du jour include: brains in vats, (mis)pronouncing names, useful tips for archery and climbing, and how everything’s going to be just fine (it so isn’t though…)
Join Jennifer and Milan for an odyssey through the wonders of correlation. Stops along the way include: the Island of Extreme Values (skirting the murky waters of assumptions), the Sea of Simulation (with interactive visualisations), and the Pit of Philosophy of Science (what is the point of doing science if we never know anything for sure?). We inevitably veer off‑course to talk about whether we’ll ever see Lincoln again, stoke up an existential crisis or two, and muse about what we love most about learning and teaching
Jennifer and Milan get #sodeepbro about χ2 tests, going through the calculations of expected values and talking about what these calculations actually mean. Differing opinions are offered on whether or not there is magic in the world (there isn’t)
A relative dearth of audience questions leaves Jennifer and Milan to awkwardly meander thorugh a chat both of them could do without