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real meaning of statistics

The whole problem of overal testing and of data collection is that eaming lies on statistics and that you must not think in terms of individuals when regarding those.

You cannot understand why one individual child failed the test exploiting statistics; you can however improve so that less children fail the test next iteration. That doesn't mean that individual child would have succeeded with iterated methods, it only means that given the overall knowledge you have about the children population, the chances one child suceed is higher, on average.

Such a language cannot reach people interested in the well beeing of any one particular child, that is parents, and on a certain basis teachers; it is however central to those that deal with the education of children at a large scale.

Posted by: s_souche   Posted on: 06/17/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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