PT154 · S1 · Q8 Statistics teachers often debate

Out of Scope: goal of taking class No part of the car vs. stats analogy involves the goal/purpose a student has in taking the class or the goal/purpose a driver has in learning to drive a car.

It's already implied that stats and math are distinct disciplines from the way the paragraph discusses them. More importantly, this answer would not complete the analogy by saying "similarly, ordinary stats users not need to know the underlying math theories in order to use stats to solve real problems".

Weak Match Out of Scope: most likely This is somewhat tempting because it does go in the right direction of "we should do less teaching of underlying math and more teaching of how to use stats to solve problems". But this answer doesn't talk about "less teaching of underlying math" or "how to solve problems". In order to make this answer relevant to those concepts, we'd have to add in our own idea that "the skills students are most likely to use" would be learning how to use stats to apply real problems. Our job in this blank should be to carry over the language from the first half of the sentence to the other half of the analogy. What the first half of the sentence said about learning to drive is what the second half of the sentence should say about learning stats. So it should sound like, "similarly, ordinary stats users not need to know the underlying math theories in order to use stats to solve real problems".

This answer is talking about requirements or non-requirements for becoming a statistics teacher. Nothing in the paragraph was talking about the hiring requirements for stats teachers.