Читать книгу Interpreting and Using Statistics in Psychological Research - Andrew N. Christopher - Страница 26

One commonalty in the flaws in our thinking is that they all, to varying extents, rely on our personal experiences to learn about the world. Personal experiences can sometimes be helpful. For instance, when I was three years old, I touched a hot stove burner. I learned right then and there never to do it again. However, just because our experiences may provide us with information, it does not mean that such information is necessarily correct or true of people in general. We use statistics not to learn about any one person but to learn about people (and animals, chemicals, and many other topics of study) in general. Let’s discuss, and in some cases, reinforce, some extremely important statistical concepts that will appear throughout this class.