This is a module out of a course that was roughly intended to be a teaser for probability and statistics. Other modules will also be offered as part of Splash (M11663: The Correlations Funhouse; M11660: Taste Testing and Statistics), but do not have to be taken concurrently. We will start this module with a discussion about the meaning of randomness and priors, lead into an activity that dives a bit further into conditional probabilities and Bayes rule, and finally play the Monty Hall game. The focus will be on building intuition, and no previous experience with probability is required.

This is a module out of a course that was roughly intended to be a teaser for probability and statistics. Other modules will also be offered as part of Splash (M11663: The Correlations Funhouse; M11658: Spies, Goats, Cars, and Bayes), but do not have to be taken concurrently. We will start with a a discussion about randomness and data, then lead into a hands-on application of a Fisher's famous taste testing experiment. Can you really tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi? How about filtered and unfiltered water?

This is a module out of a course that was roughly intended to be a teaser for probability and statistics. Other modules will also be offered as part of Splash (M11660: Taste Testing and Statistics; M11658: Spies, Goats, Cars, and Bayes), but do not have to be taken concurrently. We start this module by asking students to identifying trends, then take a look at how to think critically about statistics (Is the most dangerous job being a student? Why do your friends have more friends than you?), and finally, end with a look at rotations of data and how decorrelating data can help pick out signals. No previous exposure to statistics is required.

This is a small sampling of probability, statistics, and computation. Not meant to be comprehensive, it's just a teaser with a few fun applications. Every other class will be hands-on group work centered around a game (for example, the prisoner's dilemma, decoding messages, monty hall, or taste testing). And the class before will set up the background helpful for working through the game using demonstrations with parallel examples.