Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard to solve. This can have serious ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a general approach to statistical problems with criteria based on probabilities of large deviations. Our main idea, which ...

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The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...