Abstract #302320

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JSM 2003 Abstract #302320
Activity Number: 80
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 4, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #302320
Title: Understanding Statistical Scientific Reasoning
Author(s): Leslie Burkholder*+ and Ronald Giere
Companies: University of British Colombia and University of Minnesota
Address: Buchanan E369, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, Canada
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Abstract:

Helping students understand scientific reasoning involves two tasks. One of these is to provide students with a framework for analyzing and evaluating scientific reasoning or inference. The other task is to tell them about historically important examples of scientific reasoning and analyze and evaluate them using the framework. Of course some scientific reasoning or inference is statistical; it is either the reasoning of tests of significance or the reasoning of confidence intervals. We'll outline the general framework for analyzing and evaluating scientific reasoning or inference and show how it can be used in an historically important example of statistical scientific reasoning (eg, Mendel's research on inheritance). We'll present both the more common or standard reasoning of tests of significance for the case (a chi-square test) and the reasoning of confidence intervals. In addition we'll explain the benefits to students of the second approach for understanding scientific reasoning.

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