The Higher Education Psychology Network existed from 2004 to 2011 to promote excellence in the learning, teaching and assessment of Psychology in UK HE

Undoing the side-effects of statistics education: developing training methods to eliminate the equiprobability bias.

This miniproject is now complete.


This miniproject is aimed at finding ways of eliminating the equiprobability bias - the tendency for individuals to think of random events as 'equiprobable' by nature, and thus to judge outcomes that occur with different probabilities as equally likely. A large scale pilot study showed that, paradoxically, students at more advanced stages of their education tend to give more incorrect equiprobability responses than students who had no former education in statistics. The aim of this miniproject is to develop and test training methods that can eliminate the bias, and thus undo the side-effects of statistics education.

You can now access the training materials to support your statistics teaching.

A final report from this project is available.

Funding: £5,997.00

Start Date: July 2008

Contact: Kinga Morsanyi , School of Psychology, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA


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One of 24 discipline-based centres within the Higher Education Academy, the Psychology Network supported the teaching and learning of psychology across the UK between 2004 and 2011. A core team, based at the University of York, worked with students, staff, departments, professional bodies and overseas organisations to develop supportive networks and to improve the learning experience of psychology students in Higher Education.
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