a spreadsheet for Bayes’ rule
A spreadsheet that does the calculation for Bayes’ rule. Bayes
Read more.a spreadsheet for creating populations
This is an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to create new populations for chapters 5 and 6. Ch5–pop_two_variables
Read more.a spreadsheet for calculating probabilities
This spreadsheet can be used to find the probability when two, three, four, five, six, and ten individuals are selected
Read more.my course schedule for Argument & Inference
Here is the schedule I’m using this fall (2017) for my Intro to Logic course (with Argument & Inference as
Read more.chapter 1
The first few weeks of this semester (F17), I didn’t give my logic students any homework assignments or quizzes to
Read more.a quick introduction to deductive logic
This semester I did pp. 235 – 238 in Argument & Inference right after section 1.4 (in chapter 1). This
Read more.concept maps
In The A Game, Sufka explains that concept maps are (1) one good way for students to organize the material
Read more.making probabilistic predictions
Fivethirtyeight.com has an online prediction game for the 2017 NFL season: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/nfl-predictions-game/ . Participants make a probabilistic prediction for each game
Read more.the Monty Hall problem
I don’t include the Monty Hall problem in my course, but I have found that, sometimes, someone who knows that
Read more.making probabilistic predictions, continued
There’s a post about the NFL predictions game that I had my students try here. Although they were making predictions
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