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Resources for creating an accessible Stats class

Nicole Gilbert Cote, Jared Schwartzer & Natasha Matos created a great website, The Accessible Toolbox,  filled with ideas for creating an accessible statistics class. In addition to advice, they offer A FREE (thanks, APS!) 3-D Tool Kit for teaching stats , which includes :

Google Dataset search engine

HEY. Here is a whole bunch of data, searchable via Google.                       https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ h/t: Samy ! 

Interpreting effect sizes: An Olympic-sized metaphor

First, a pun: American athlete Athing Mu broke the American record for the 800m. I guess you could say...that Mu is anything but average!! HAHAAAHAHAHHA. https://twitter.com/Notawful/status/1409456926497423363 Anyway. It is late June 2021, and my Twitter feed is filled with amazing athletes qualifying for the Olympics. Athletes like Sydney McLaughlin. That picture was taken after McLaughlin a) qualified for the 2021 Olympics AND b) broke the 400m hurdle world record. Which is amazing.  Now, here is where I think we could explain effect size interpretation. How big was McLaughlin's lead over the previous record? From SpectrumNews1 McLaughlin broke the world record by less than a second. But she broke the world record so less than a second is a huge deal. Similarly, we may have Cohen's small-medium-large recommendations when interpreting effect sizes, but we always need to interpret an effect size within context. Does a small effect size finding explain more variance than any pre...