| Friday, June 16, 2006 |
| Never say your lecturers don't have a sense of humour! |
Actual stats practice questions set by Monash University teachers:
This unit is full of nonsensical jargon! What on earth is the coefficient of determination?
a. another name for r
b. another name for r squared
c. another name for SP
d. another name for the Sum of Squares
The correlation between school achievement and intelligence is about 0.80 in primary school, but it starts to drop in late high school. You have been informed that the correlation between school achievement and intelligence has dropped to 0.3 for University students. How can this be explained?
a. anyone with any brains has already got a real job!
b. grades at University are just a matter of agreeing with your instructors
c. it is not ability but privilege that is important for success at University
d. restriction of range
The spearman correlation coefficient tests whether the relationship between X and Y is:
a. linear
b. ordinal
c. monotonous
d. monotonic
What effect does tied scores have on the Mann Whitney U test.
a. reduces the likelihood of rejecting Ho
b. increases the likelihood of rejecting Ho
c. my textbook won't tell me
d. same as for the Wilcoxon test
[ans: b, d (for duh), d (for duh), a]
Thank you whoever (they didn't say who set which questions) for making me smile in the midst of almost-drowning in statistical formulae. Lol.
Oh, and the last question huh, got grammar mistake leh. |
posted by esther @ 12:09 AM  |
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the second question first option very funny hehe
eh my stats questions dun seem so funny le...no fair*pouts*
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this is my new blog add... http://vivimomoko.blogspot.com/
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hahaha maybe the teachers also stressed over setting exam questions then they set funny questions for us loh... lol.
hi vivi, i've changed the link already. :)
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the second question first option very funny hehe
eh my stats questions dun seem so funny le...no fair*pouts*