Week one of Cedo 540

On to another class!  This new class is a statistics class.  I don't recall ever taking a statistics class in the past, but a lot of what we were covering in the first class made sense to me.  Being a special education teacher, I look at numbers fairly often and look for patterns in students' performance to see where they may need a little more help or where they are excelling.  Something I learned this week was the concept of parameters vs. statistics.  Before this class, I thought statistics was the measure of a sample and a population.   I did not realize that you actually call a measure of a whole population a parameter.  Another thing that was new to me this week was skewed distributions.   I always thought that a positively skewed distribution was top heavy to the right, not the other way around.   Now I know that I was incorrect and I will understand what it means for data to be positively and negatively skewed in the future.  Though a lot of the material in this statistics class isn't a ton of fun, I do find much of it interesting and look forward to the rest of the class.