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Re: Does robotics attract the right students?
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Originally Posted by penguinfrk
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However, these statistics are enough to draw a few conclusions.
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Larry,
Be careful. From what you have shown us so far, you can not draw the conclusions you listed in your post. Correlation does not mean causation.
Until you compare datasets in which the ONLY difference is the presence of a STEM robotics program, and until you can see variation in test scores that matches variations in the STEM robotics program; you simply can not tell if the robotics programs are symptoms, causes, or coincidences.
What you see in your data could be the result of many influences.
I hope you can devise a method for showing causation and not just correlation; but I don't think you have that method in place yet.
Blake
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