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Skill at Teaching vs. Talking About Teaching

2014

A scatter plot suggests skill at teaching and skill at talking about teaching are only loosely correlated.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2014-01-01-skill-at-teaching-vs-talking-about-teaching/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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[Scatter plot: Skill at Talking About Teaching (y) vs. Skill at Teaching (x), a large, weakly correlated cloud of dots]

Topics
Statistics › Scatter PlotsStatistics › Correlation & CausationMath Culture › Teaching
Level
High SchoolAP StatisticsAll Ages
Themes
Teachers & ClassroomFor Teachers (Classroom Satire)Visual Explanations