Video and Multimedia
Video Clips
This video discusses key points of probability (9:44).
This video includes discussion of key points of probability distributions (9:33).
This video provides a visual and audio description of the normal curve. This is discussed in simplified terms with drawings (4:33).
Describes z scores and how to find the z score of a data point. (2:06).
This video describes the normal distribution and important key points (5:26).
Audio Clips
NPR discusses meaningless statistics in sports (3:58).
Professor Andrew Gelman discusses how people misunderstand probability when it comes to the coin toss (4:17).
New research suggests that rather than describe how humans perform, the bell curve may actually be constraining how people perform (4:33)
New York writer Malcolm Gladwell discusses how the homeless problem could be solved if assistance were provided to a small number of permanently homeless people (7:21).
BBC podcast that gives a historical overview of the Gaussian, or bell-shaped, distribution and how it is used today (13:49).