{"pk":28200,"title":"Experientially Grounded Learning About the Roles of Variability, Sample Size, and Difference Between Means in Statistical Reasoning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Despite its omnipresence in this information-laden\nsociety, statistics is hard. The present study explored the\napplicability of a grounded cognition approach to learning\nbasic statistical concepts. Participants in 2 experiments\ninteracted with perceptually rich computer simulations\ndesigned to foster understanding of the relations between\nfundamental statistical concepts and to promote the ability\nto reason with statistics. During training, participants were\nasked to estimate the probability of two samples coming\nfrom the same population, with sample size, variability, and\ndifference between means independently manipulated. The\namount of learning during training was measured by the\ndifference between participants’ confidence judgments and\nthose of an Ideal Observer. The amount of transfer was\nassessed by the increase in accuracy from a pretest to a\nposttest. Learning and transfer were observed when tailored\nguidance was given along with the perceptually salient\nproperties. Implications of our quantitative measures of\nhuman sensitivity to statistical concepts were discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"grounded cognition; statistical inferences;\nstatistics education; variability; sample size; mean"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gq7d6xm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jingqi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yu","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Goldstone","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"","last_name":"Landy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Indiana University Bloomington","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28200/galley/17859/download/"}]}