1. What’s Wrong with Stat 101? George W. Cobb Mount Holyoke College GCobb@MtHolyoke.edu USCOTS 2015 State College PA, May 28

2. I. The evolving role of mathematics II.Our blinkered vision III.Four connections to practice OVERVIEW

3. I. The evolving role of mathematics 1.Bernoulli (1692): computational engine 2.Fisher (1922): source of unifying theory 3.Mosteller (1955): source of respectability 4. AP curriculum: helicopter parent

4. Tests and intervals for One proportion One mean Difference of two proportions Difference of two means Difference among several proportions Difference among several means Mean of Y|x, provided E(Y|x) is linear in x

5. II. Blinkered vision: Two oversights Variation: Two parables and a friendly Inquisition Breiman’s two cultures Input x  “Nature”  Output y

6. III. Connections to statistical practice Context Algorithms Science Research

7. Conclusions Read seven important papers Attend good breakout sessions Think about – how you want to change your STAT 101, – try it, and – come back in 2017 to tell us about it.

8. The Seven papers Horton et al. (2014): ASA curricular guidelines Breiman (2001): breiman two cultures Brown and Kass (2009): brown kass statistics Nolan and Temple-Lang (2010): nolan temple-lang TAS computing Wagaman (2014): wagaman multivariate Dierker et al. (2014): dierker passion driven Think about how you want to change your STAT 101, try it, and come back in 2017 to tell us about it.