By my count, that’s about how many new lessons we have left to teach this year,1 before we finish the regular portion of the course,2 after which the “real work”3 begins. 4
Currently, we’re teaching Type I/II errors and statistical power.
Rather, we’re just barely5 scraping the surface of statistical power – a topic that we barely touch and hardly do justice.6
Last year at this time, we were on the verge of losing the 3rd of the three “ice” days.7 Oftentimes I think back with wonder about how we were able to make it through losing three A-days while barely skipping a beat.8
And actually, now that I know that it’s possible to lose three class days and still make it through relatively unscathed, I’d been halfway hoping for some ice to come our way…
Sadly, no (d)ice.
- Only 8! But if you turn that “8” on its side, you get “infinity” — which, while technically not a number, is closer to what it’ll feel like, due in part to the numerous “fluff” days that are sprinkled into the calendar for the next couple of units. [↩]
- which I like to think of as the “regular season” [↩]
- AP Exam prep — the portion of the course that I think of as “the playoffs” [↩]
- If you’re curious about the 8 lessons: 2-prop z; 1-sample t; 2-sample t; matched pairs; chi-squared GOF; chi-squared 2-way; inference with slope. That’s seven, but at least one of them gets split over two days. I did say “about”… [↩]
- and oh, I do mean BARELY [↩]
- but given the complexity of the topic, possibly not a bad idea. [↩]
- Along with a half-day which proved to be wholly unnecessary… but was surely a politicized over-compensation for not deciding to cancel school for the 2nd ice day until after some kids had gotten to school. [↩]
- It was only possible due to the aforementioned “fluff” days… [↩]