Comment on the Age Discrimination Example
7 Pages Posted: 1 May 2006
Abstract
This comment addresses two questions: How useful is the example and hyperlink method as a teaching as opposed to reference tool? And, what do judges need to know about statistical analysis? The discussion of the example-and-hyperlink method includes observations about the accessibility of this teaching method to judges, whether it enables judges to generalize from the specific examples, and how the prototype might be improved by comparing the utility of statistical tests. The discussion of what judges need to know draws from years of teaching statistics to judges but still rests only on my intuition about what information about statistics they need to do their work as judges intelligently. Judges need to know less about formulas and more about when particular statistical approaches are appropriate, as well as the relative merits of statistical methods for different contexts, types of data, and questions.
Keywords: age discrimination, hyperlink method, teaching method, statistical approach, reference tools
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