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Philip MoriartySchool of Physics & Astronomy
University of Nottingham
[email protected]@Moriarty2112
www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/nano
Lies, damned lies, and Ofsted’s pseudostatistics
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The day job: Research
Condensed matter physicist Single atom/molecule
imaging and manipulation
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Condensed matter physicist Single atom/molecule
imaging and manipulation
The day job: Research
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The day job: Teaching
Measurements without uncertainties/error bars “not even wrong”
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Not everything that counts…
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-einstein/
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Beyond the ivory tower…
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WTF?!
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Measuring success?
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…and universities are no better.
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The normal distributionThe normal distribution
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But marks aren’t necessarily But marks aren’t necessarily normally distributed…normally distributed…
Consider
0, 50, 100
49, 50, 51
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……and neither are many other and neither are many other things in lifethings in life
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The central limit theoremThe central limit theorem
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