{"id":127,"date":"2005-04-06T16:14:39","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T21:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/06\/problems-with-understandable-statistics-by-brase-and-brase\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T22:03:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T06:03:13","slug":"problems-with-understandable-statistics-by-brase-and-brase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/06\/problems-with-understandable-statistics-by-brase-and-brase\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems with Understandable Statistics by Brase and Brase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0618205543\/ref=olp_product_details\/002-3048081-5102439?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance\">Understandable Statistics, Seventh Edition by Brase, Charles Henry Brase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050406statistics.jpg' align=\"right\" alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>I took this course last year at Warren County Community College. I found myself very interested in the subject. There were problems though. Several times I had to bite my tongue in class or while speaking one-on-one with the teacher else I show her up&#8230; and that is an uncomfortable proposition! Also, the book SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU<br \/>\nUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU<br \/>\nUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU<br \/>\nUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU<br \/>\nUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED<\/p>\n<p>So, I often found myself sitting in class, not listening to the teacher and correcting the mistakes in the textbook with my pencil. And this is from someone who hasn&#8217;t ever taken Statistics before! One sunny day in the back of the classroom, I went ahead and wrote an &#8220;Authors Note to Students&#8221; on one of those pages that was intentionally left blank.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Authors Note to Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although this book is in its 7th edition, no care has been put into making this extremely interesting topic easy or accessible. To this end, Brase and I have made sure to <strong>not<\/strong> explain the variables in our equations, <strong>not<\/strong> describe our reasonings in &#8220;English&#8221; and <strong>not<\/strong> show each of the steps in the examples that we give. In addition, we have placed several exciting &#8220;Easter Eggs&#8221; in the form of incorrect or poorly reasoned answers in the Answer Key. This is designed to enhance your classroom experience by giving you all something to talk about in class.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you enjoy this text as much as we have enjoyed the boat that you have collectively bought us. Don&#8217;t forget to buy our 8th Edition, the exciting page renumbering of the popular 7th Edition!<\/p>\n<p>Brace &#038; Brace<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concerning Understandable Statistics, Seventh Edition by Brase, Charles Henry Brase I took this course last year at Warren County Community College. I found myself very interested in the subject. There were problems though. Several times I had to bite my tongue in class or while speaking one-on-one with the teacher else I show her up&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}