Timeline for Fun, impressive, or compelling examples of scaling of the standard deviation like $1/\sqrt{n}$?
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| Jan 5, 2020 at 9:12 | comment | added | Jessica B | I would think, if you are going to do this, the subject needs to be relevant to the main topic of the course, which you haven't stated. | |
| Jan 4, 2020 at 23:49 | comment | added | guest | " I'm teaching a class where statistics is not the main topic, but I would like to introduce the idea that if you take n measurements of a variable that are independent, identically distributed, and uncorrelated, then the mean has a standard deviation that scales down like 1/nāāā." While this is an important intuitive concept in measurements, I question your introducing it into a class where stats is not the main topic, and especially with juco students. Concentrate on helping them learn the core material in the subject you are teaching. | |
| Jan 4, 2020 at 20:39 | answer | added | Chris Cunningham | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 4, 2020 at 20:23 | history | edited | user507 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 4, 2020 at 20:13 | history | asked | user507 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |