This resource explains what generalization is in statistics, its advantages and disadvantages, and problems that can occur, e.g., sample or response bias. Includes detailed examples of sampling error and sample bias.

Students use Reese's Pieces to investigate the proportion of orange candies present in a set of 25. After collecting data for the class, they use a web applet to collect more data for random samples. This is compared to the actual...

Given a population with known characteristics, students will be able to use a variety of methods to generate random samples of the same size in order to understand how a random sample is representative of a population.

In this biology lab young scholars will compare two sample populations of sunflower seeds. Comparison of the two populations will be done through the generation of a histogram for each population. One population will be black oil...

This set contains questions regarding the Central Limit Theorem. The student sees that, as the size n increases, the shape of the sampling distribution gradually approaches a normal curve, and its population standard deviation decreases.