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Against All Odds: Inside Statistics

Against All Odds: Inside Statistics

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Each video introduces a statistical topic in real-world context and takes the student on location to where people from all walks of life are using statistics in their work. Starting with descriptive statistics, the course continues through probability and inference. Examples range from finding patterns in lightning strikes, to examining possible generic resistance to deadly Lassa fever in West Africa, to linking DDT to the decline of peregrine falcons.

Closeup of man with furrowed brow and lips puckered in mid-speech. Map in background. Caption. Here we collected, in one year we collected.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 1
9 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup side view of a midsection with arms holding a large tube up to a machine. Caption. Jenna can calculate the percent of nitrogen in the sample.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 2
9 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Smiling man kneels with arm resting on one leg and lips parted in mid-speech. Field of grass swarming with brown chickens in background. Caption. The big thing is certified organic grain.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 3
10 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Middle-aged man with mustache wears sunglasses and holds onto railing of a boat as he leans forward. Caption. That's too fast in there.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 4
9 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Middle-aged man with mustache wears tinted aviator glasses and looks at man whose back faces camera at left edge of frame. Caption. They had other things in common.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 5
10 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of a T, V screen with black and white still of Fred Flintstone sitting in a stone chair and turning toward viewer with cigarette in his hand.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 6
14 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man in suit with eyes closed and lips pursed in mid-speech. American flag in background. Title bar reads, "Mario Matthews. Regional Director, United States Census Bureau." Caption. Because the United States is such a dynamic country.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 7
9 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman stands with fingertips touching and lips parted in mid-speech. Bar graph superimposed on left side of screen. Caption. If we were to run the experiment over again many times.
Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Episode 8
11 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12