Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Dancing statistics

Want to teach about correlation, frequency distributions, sampling, standard error, and/or variance? Want to use interpretive dance? The British Psychological Society has produced four short (< 5 minutes) videos that dramatically illustrate these concepts.

And thanks to Maggie Koreth-Baker for posting a link to them on BoingBoing.

Statistics explained with the help of modern dance
If you're the type of person who really needs some good visuals to make a concept stick in your head, this series of YouTube videos made by the British Psychological Society Media Centre will help you remember the meanings behind statistical concepts like "correlation", "frequency distributions", and "sampling error"…








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