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)
 
A Scientific Approach to Helping the Homeless                                                                 
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).