Provocative question to all psychologists teaching statistics: Shouldn't you just stop & let mathematically trained statisticians take over? Empirical research shows that psych's teaching statistics don't know statistics well enough. So how can still teaching it be justified?
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+1 Greece
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We even do more than A-level Maths... which shocked me at the time since UK uni for undergrad (compsci) required me to take Maths A-level even though they knew I went to the kind of school I did... I guess that's a massive other tangent about how UK treats overseas students.
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I do think that's an issue. However, it is an insanely difficult problem to track qualifications and schooling in say 50-100 different countries (each with variation within their systems) and personalise an offer. (I once recall having to make an offer based on Peruvian quals)
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I don't buy this too much as an argument in my case... because I went through it and the system is very old. Cypriots have been studying in the UK since before Cyprus was a country.
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Also I didn't get a personalised offer at all. They just asked for 2 A-levels and an apolyterion. Same as everybody else from Cyprus.
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This is half-outsourced in Cyprus to the British Council and High commission and the student themselves. We get our apolyterions translated and do so much legwork. And it counts just as one A-level when it's like 4.
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Part of the problem is the inability to make a personalised offer when you do have good information. Another part is the difficulty of coping with the variety of systems means that we end up with simplistic rules.
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In the UK most don’t even study their own government. Like they don’t know the structure of their own government or EU government. They don’t have to study it. Then they decide to leave the EU which they don’t even know what it is. This baffles me so much
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What % of Brits do you estimate can give a one-sentence answer to "What's the difference between the Government and Parliament"?
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100% but it won't be correct.

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I mean I don’t know, I am just baffled that Britons don’t think it is a core part of the democratic system that the people understand how it works and what different roles are within the government and local councils.
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Half the people in the "people with geography in common" Facebook group I'm a member of don't know the difference between passport control, customs, and security at an airport. It's all just "customs".
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Wait till they all leave the EU. They'll know it's something.

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That's actually one thing that I don't think Brexit will change much. Brits already have to do passport control bc of no Schengen and they will probably actually welcome the return of "genuine" duty free (even though they will be getting ripped off). And BLUE PASSPORTS !!!!!1!
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We'll see. I can't wait TBH. It's worth it.

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Yeah. This kind of math is like reading/writing. Start young, plus it is within everyone's reach.
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Yes, it is actually easy.
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I did the basics of matrices in primary school but not in high school(!) as it wasn't on the syllabus. Lots of calculus from about year 10 onwards though.
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No idea what year 10 is.

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I'm guessing myself. I meant when you're 14-15 ish
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I can't remember not doing it from 12 onwards. By the end, so when we were 17-18, it was rococo levels of complex stuff. It was my favourite subject, I think. That and coding, but it was in Pascal... LMAO
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