Humor in Teaching

September 16th, 2009

OK, stop me if you’ve heard this one… three statisticians walk into a bar…
Is statistics funny? Neumann, Hood, & Neumann (2009) think they can make it funny, and sought to find out how students reacted to including humor in statistics classes. (It should be noted that this article is from a Journal of Statistics Education “Research to Practice” [...]

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