RUME 26
2024
Omaha, Nebraska
Novice Statistics Students’ Forms of Reasoning When Reasoning About and With Sampling Distributions
Page: 1453
Statistical reasoning is inherently different from mathematical reasoning because reasoning about data involves reasoning with uncertainty. In mathematics, deduction and induction are privileged, but abductive reasoning is powerful when reasoning about data, especially when making inferences from sample data. I present preliminary results from examining the forms of reasoning—deductive, inductive, and abductive—that novice statistics students employed when reasoning about and with sampling distributions.