You might think about looking at stock returns and asking questions about
the probability of doubling your money or of getting a rate of return that
exceeds the historical mean.  Geoff

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Christophe Genolini <cgenolin@u-paris10.fr
> wrote:

> Hi the list,
>
> As a statistics teacher, I teach to NOT-scientists student, public that it
> is permanently necessary to motivate. I am thus in search of examples both
> scientific and playful to illustrate my courses. It is not always easy to
> find. As other teacher might be in the same case, I say to myself that we
> could maybe share our 'best' examples?
>
> So I start: a social psychologist (Nicolas Gueguen, article here
> http://nicolas.gueguen.free.fr/index.html) has establishes that if we
> approach a perfect unknown lady on a beach and we ask for its phone number,
> we have 9 % of chance to obtain it. If we call her by touching her slightly
> on the front arm, we have 19 % (!!!) of chances to obtain it (test of chi2,
> p < 0.01). Surprising, isn't it?
>
> So what are your 'best examples' ?
>
> Christophe Genolini
>
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-- 
Geoffrey Smith
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Finance
W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University

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