Study Design: What a Result Does and Does Not License You to Claim: Math Unit 3, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Study Design: What a Result Does and Does Not License You to Claim is Unit 3 of Statistics and Data Science: An Introduction to Statistical Reasoning (Part 1) (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Math course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 90 pages.

• Population/sample and parameter/statistic distinction
• The four sampling-method labels as a directly taught classification routine
• Sampling methods and their associated biases
• Random assignment as the mechanism that rules out confounding and licenses causal claims
• Confounding variables in observational studies
• Wording effects as a source of response bias
• Actual study design underlying a news article’s causal claim
• The licensed claim of a specific real study, synthesized across sampling method, design type, and confounding
• The independence of sampling-method validity and assignment-method validity as two separate axes of a study’s design

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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