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Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: What do Students Know about the Words Association, Average, Confidence, Random and Spread?

Lexical Ambiguity in Statistics: What do Students Know about the Words Association, Average, Confidence, Random and Spread?

Language plays a crucial role in the classroom. The use of specialized language in a domain can cause a subject to seem more difficult to students than it actually is. When words that are part of everyday English are used differently in a domain, these words are said to have …