Earlier this year I posted about a new course proposal entitled “Stats, Sports, and School.” My proposal was accepted! This means that I will be preparing for this course until it launches August 2013.
Now the Hard Work begins.
I want kids to be able to pursue their interests in constructing a statistical research project. On the surface, their research topic should be tied (in some way) to sports or sports medicine.
So I have some questions for you. I’d love your comments:
1. Imagine you’re a student who’s just been dropped into this course. What would you be interested in learning more about / researching in the sports/sports medicine field?
2. Imagine you’re a student who’s just been dropped into this course. What would you be interested in learning more about / researching in the area of statistics/data?
3. After you leave this course, what would you hope you have experienced. learned. or achieved?
Answer any of these or all of them.
Thanks.
roughlynormal
roughlynormal 
I’m afraid my reaction would be “who locked me in the room with all these sports nuts? let me out! let me out, now!”
Congratulations! I have no suggestions right now, but I’ll keep this course in mind.
Okay, here’s one for #3: I want to have experienced messing around with actual data—ideally collected by me—and finding out that I can say something intelligent about the surrounding topic as a result.
At the end of that path, then, there is probably a presentation (written or video or whatever) where I’ve incorporated graphs, at a minimum, and more if that’s appropriate.
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Hi. “Imagine you’re a student … ” I’d like to know if performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) really work in a statistically significant way. As a quick example, Barry Bonds’ 73 home run season was way beyond 2 standard deviations from his 15 year mean home runs per season before that. Is that usually the case, or is the increase more gradual? I don’t know if data exists on when an athlete began using PEDs. By the way, it’s easy to find before and after pictures of Bonds – does every athlete on PEDs change so dramatically? Did Clemens?
Jerry Tuttle
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