So You Want to Be an Influencer?
If your students are like ours, sometimes they'll say things (especially after getting a bad exam grade) like: "I'm going to drop out and become an influencer." The "OK Boomer" response would be to give them a lecture about how finishing school provides them with greater security in life, more financial prospects, more knowledge ... yada, yada, yada.
Instead, use the confidence interval for means lesson below! The lesson is not only informative - it can also be a lot of fun. Check it out.
Interval for a Mean
Lesson 8.1
Students consider data from the Harvard admissions case, evaluating fairness using a chi-square test.
What we like about this lesson:
It's not an incredibly serious topic, but students still find it very relevant.
At the end, after going through all the inference steps to construct their interval, students find an unintuitive result - then, they have to think about why they got this result. This gets students thinking conceptually and making connections to earlier ideas in the course (sampling methods).
Let's skew it!