“If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most.” Penn Jillette It was 6th grade. I was sitting in the back of a (boring) language arts class when the boy seated next to me – a boy that I’d had a crush on for the entire semester – turnedContinue reading “The Data Don’t Always Say What You Want to Hear: The Role of Cognitive Bias in Data Analysis”
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The Problem With Teaching to the Test
“Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Whether you’re working with students in a classroom or a machine learning algorithm housed on a computer, teaching to the test can haveContinue reading “The Problem With Teaching to the Test”
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