Month: March 2014
Formal logic bumper sticker
Source: http://www.xkcd.com/1033/
Paths
I offer the following xkcd comic as a possible engagement exercise concerning the Pythagorean theorem.
Source: http://www.xkcd.com/85/
Dancing Statistics: Part 4
From the YouTube description:
A four minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of correlation through dance.
Project title: ‘Communicating Psychology to the Public through Dance’ (AKA ‘Dancing Statistics’)
Founder & Co-Producer: Lucy Irving
Project Manager & Co-Producer: Elise Phillips
Statistical Lead & Co-Producer: Professor Andy Field
Choreographer: Masha Gurina
Filmmaker: Kyle Stevenson
These films were funded by a BPS Public Engagement with additional funding from IdeasTap.
http://www.bps.org.uk/news/bps-funded…
If you have questions or comments about this film please contact @statsdancer #dancingstatistics or dancingstatistics@gmail.com
The BPS runs an annual public engagement grant scheme. Through these grants we aim to help members promote the relevance of evidence-based psychology to wider audiences either through direct work or by organising interesting and relevant communications activities. For press inquiries please contact the BPS Press Office.
http://www.bps.org.uk/what-we-do/awar…
IdeasTap is an arts charity for young, creative people at the start of their careers.
Visit their website for more information http://www.ideastap.com.
Dancing Statistics: Part 3
From the YouTube description:
A five minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of variance through dance.
Project title: ‘Communicating Psychology to the Public through Dance’ (AKA ‘Dancing Statistics’)
Founder & Co-Producer: Lucy Irving
Project Manager & Co-Producer: Elise Phillips
Statistical Lead & Co-Producer: Professor Andy Field
Choreographer: Masha Gurina
Filmmaker: Kyle Stevenson
These films were funded by a BPS Public Engagement with additional funding from IdeasTap.
http://www.bps.org.uk/news/bps-funded…
If you have questions or comments about this film please contact @statsdancer #dancingstatistics or dancingstatistics@gmail.com
The BPS runs an annual public engagement grant scheme. Through these grants we aim to help members promote the relevance of evidence-based psychology to wider audiences either through direct work or by organising interesting and relevant communications activities. For press inquiries please contact the BPS Press Office.
http://www.bps.org.uk/what-we-do/awar…
IdeasTap is an arts charity for young, creative people at the start of their careers.
Visit their website for more information http://www.ideastap.com.
Dancing Statistics: Part 2
From the YouTube description:
A five minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of sampling & standard error through dance.
Project title: ‘Communicating Psychology to the Public through Dance’ (AKA ‘Dancing Statistics’)
Founder & Co-Producer: Lucy Irving
Project Manager & Co-Producer: Elise Phillips
Statistical Lead & Co-Producer: Professor Andy Field
Choreographer: Masha Gurina
Filmmaker: Kyle Stevenson
These films were funded by a BPS Public Engagement with additional funding attracted from IdeasTap.
http://www.bps.org.uk/news/bps-funded…
If you have questions or comments about this film please contact @statsdancer #dancingstatistics or dancingstatistics@gmail.com
The BPS runs an annual public engagement grant scheme. Through these grants we aim to help members promote the relevance of evidence-based psychology to wider audiences either through direct work or by organising interesting and relevant communications activities. For press inquiries please contact the BPS Press Office.
http://www.bps.org.uk/what-we-do/awar…
IdeasTap is an arts charity for young, creative people at the start of their careers.
Visit their website for more information http://www.ideastap.com.
Dancing Statistics: Part 1
From the YouTube description:
A three minute film demonstrating the statistical concept of frequency distributions through dance.
Project title: ‘Communicating Psychology to the Public through Dance’ (AKA ‘Dancing Statistics’)
Founder & Co-Producer: Lucy Irving
Project Manager & Co-Producer: Elise Phillips
Statistical Lead & Co-Producer: Professor Andy Field
Choreographer: Masha Gurina
Filmmaker: Kyle Stevenson
These films were funded by a BPS Public Engagement with additional funding from IdeasTap.
http://www.bps.org.uk/news/bps-funded…
If you have questions or comments about this film please contact @statsdancer #dancingstatistics or dancingstatistics@gmail.com
The BPS runs an annual public engagement grant scheme. Through these grants we aim to help members promote the relevance of evidence-based psychology to wider audiences either through direct work or by organising interesting and relevant communications activities. For press inquiries please contact the BPS Press Office.
http://www.bps.org.uk/what-we-do/awar…
IdeasTap is an arts charity for young, creative people at the start of their careers.
Visit their website for more information http://www.ideastap.com.
MyScript MathPad: Handwriting LaTeX generator
LaTeX offers a free way for typing mathematical equations (for example, all of the mathematical equations on this website are written in LaTeX). Here’s an app for iPhones and iPads that I just found that says it can convert hand-written equations into LaTeX: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-mathpad-handwriting/id674996719?mt=8
Proofs Without Words: Alternating Sums of Consecutive Squares
For a visual proof that
Can You Solve This?
A friend forwarded this very interesting video to me. It’s not so much an exercise in mathematics but an exercise in problem-solving and logic and especially confirmation bias. I won’t ruin the video but I’ll give the punch line at the end:
If you think that something is true, you should try as hard as you can to disprove it. Only then can you really get at the truth and not fool yourself.
Mean Green Math 