Statistics teachers often debate

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope0% picked this

   students should not be presumed by their teachers to have a particular goal or purpose

   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.

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2. B

   Unrelated to Analogy0% picked this

   statistics should be considered as a discipline that is distinct

   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".

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3. C

   Trap10% picked this

   statistics teachers should focus on providing their students with the skills that they are most

   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".

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4. D

   Correct90% picked this

   users of statistics do not need to understand the underlying theory in order to

   Why this is right

   As we discussed before, 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. We wanted, "similarly, ordinary stats users not need to know the underlying math theories in order to use stats to solve real problems". This answer lines us very closely to that.

   Skill tested: Most Supported · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

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5. E

   Out of Scope: to become teachers0% picked this

   statisticians do not need to understand the needs of their students in order

   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.

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