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Your conclusion about the Class of 2009-10? |
What is the Class of 2010-11 saying? |
| I am sitting at my desk reading a study published by Michigan State University about Facebook usage. It is part of a research project I am working on about Facebook's effect on the college experience. AP Stats came into my mind as I was looking over their stats: their sample size and distribution amongst social groups, their graphs, mean and stdv. values. I can understand how accurate their information is, where they got it from, and if their findings are relatable to other campuses. The knowledge that I learned in AP Stats was some of the most valuable I received in all of my education thus far. Every statistic I read I judge based on the knowledge I got in AP Stats. I find that I make more accurate and more thought out decisions if I remind myself of the lessons of stats class. Dan Teller. 12th grader. BB&N AP Statistics Class, 2009-10. Written in 2012 while at Tufts. |
| I was skeptical about the real life use of the techniques and equations we were using in class, such as the chi squared test of significance and the ANOVA test of significance. But now, working in a bio-informatics lab in Broad Institute, dealing with gene expression and the human genome, I fully see the use of these techniques. I am in fact conducting chi squared tests, ANOVA tests and linear association tests almost everyday! I look and interpret p values and r squared values all the time. AP Statistics has really put me a step ahead of the other interns in my lab since I am already familiar with the appropriate techniques and methods of these tests. Manik Kuchro. 11th grader. BB&N AP Statistics Class, 2009-10. Written during the summer after completing this class. |
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What I took away from statistics is this: all unrigged data is nasty in its own right, and statistics is a collection of methods by which to gather and make use of that mess artfully in at least one helpful and meaningful way. |
"We are Statistically Significant" (08-9)
