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by jumpman500 3076 days ago
Well I'm commenting on the internet Verdex_3. I'm not going to take the time to write out a bunch of interesting statistical examples for you. I wasn't trying to say it's easy to make statistics interesting. Was only trying to refute what I thought that you were asserting; statistics and probability are not interesting to teach. Designing enjoyable, interesting, challenging and fair curriculum is a really hard task to do for any subject...

If you don't believe math can be made interesting I would checkout websites like FiveThirtyEight or youtube channels like numberphile. It's definitely possible to describe statistics or math problems in interesting ways. It's hard to make any class interesting, but any teacher can do it if they work at it hard enough.

Also your moneyball comment makes no sense. All teams operate like the 2002 Oakland A's now, if anything the the movie shows the triump of statistics over bad heuristics.