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Abstract:
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Many students have a keen interest in sports, either as athletes, fans, or both. Can we tap into that interest to motivate the study of statistics? While not appropriate for all students, including some who actively rebel at sports examples, suppose we offer one section of a traditional introductory course specifically advertised to focus on sports examples. Will students be attracted to such a course? Can we still cover all the traditional statistical topics and ideas? Where are good sources for data and problems students find interesting? Can we still give them a sense of the applicability of statistics to lots of areas (e.g., business, psychology, biology) while staying within the realm of sports-motivated examples? These questions and our experience with offering such a course will serve as the theme for this roundtable discussion.
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