The Law of Small Numbers

I read about this a while ago in Thinking, Fast and Slow and I thought it was important and wanted to share.

The law of small numbers is a statistical quirk. It points out that small samples generate a higher frequency of extreme observations than larger ones.

For example, the country with the highest/lowest mortality rate will never be a big country, because big countries have more people, and will be closer to the average. The country with the highest mortality rate is Bulgaria, a country with just under 7 million people. The country with the lowest mortality rate is Qatar, a country with under 3 million people.

What sort of implications do you think that has for the education system?

Submitted February 07, 2022 at 10:15AM by ScythaScytha https://ift.tt/J3HBsbj