Type:
Volume:
32(2)
Pages:
Online
Year:
2010
Publisher:
Teaching Statistics
URL:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123342797/abstract
Abstract:
Using sequences of coin flips as a model of serial independent events, we asked schoolchildren in grades 1 through 5 to estimate the likelihood of the next flip. Most children in each grade expected short patterns to continue.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education