Abstract
Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and provide examples and tentative explanations of a number of statistical questions where common sense and statistical science diverge. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 295-304 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
Funding
Financial support was received from grant-in-aid for scientific research (KAKENHI, grant number: 20H05631) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and from the Joint Usage/Research Center at ISER, Osaka University. The survey was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University. We thank the editor, associate editor, and two referees for their constructive comments, and Jan van Maanen, Steven Tijms, and Aad van der Vaart for illuminating discussions.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration | |
| Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland | |
| Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | |
| Osaka University |
Keywords
- Common knowledge
- Experiment
- Probability
- Statistical methods