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Direct linkBeth Chance; Andrew Kerr; Jett Palmer – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
While many instructors are aware of the "Literary Digest" 1936 poll as an example of biased sampling methods, this article details potential further explorations for the "Digest's" 1924-1936 quadrennial U.S. presidential election polls. Potential activities range from lessons in data acquisition, cleaning, and validation, to…
Descriptors: Publications, Public Opinion, Surveys, Bias
Shaughnessy, Michael – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2008
Until recently, much of the research on students' understanding of statistical ideas has focused on their conceptions of center or on what constitutes a good sample. In the past decade research on students' statistical thinking has broadened and increasing interest has been paid to how students think about variability in data or variability in…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistical Data, Data Interpretation, Sampling
