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How stats fool juries - Peter Donnelly
| Content Provider | TED Ed |
|---|---|
| Description | Recruit a few friends and try Donnelly’s coin toss experiment yourself. Do you get the same result?Follow up on the Sally Clark case. Begin with her conviction in 1999 and research what happened to Clark and the other key people involved. Did the case catalyze any legal reforms in Britain (or elsewhere)? You might begin your research by constructing a timeline from available news reports; search for “Sally Clark 1999” in the archives of one or more of the following:The Guardian http://www.guardiannews.com/The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/The Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel Quarterly:The presentation of probability to the jury (Winter 2011) http://www.thefederation.org/documents/V61N2_Raghavan.pdfPlus: It’s a match (07/12/2010) http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue55/features/dnacourt/indexUnderstanding Uncertainty: Convicted on Statistics? http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/545TED: Arthur Benjamin’s formula for changing math education http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/arthur_benjamin_s_formula_for_changing_math_education.html |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Data Analysis Probability |
| Content Type | Video |
| Time Required | PT21M26S |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Lecture cum Demonstration |
| Resource Type | Video Lecture |
| Subject | Probability |