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DATA · CHANCE · THE BELL CURVE · INFERENCE

Read the world in data,
one belt at a time.

Statistics is the art of telling signal from noise — and it's taught badly almost everywhere. Stat Dojo teaches it the way Freedman, Pisani & Purves do: with pictures and plain reasoning, not calculus. Summarize data with an average and an SD, put a number on chance, watch a bell curve appear out of nowhere, fit a line through a cloud of points — then make the leap every scientist makes, from a single sample to a claim about the whole world.

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World 1

Describing Data

Distributions, Center & Spread

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Before you can reason about data you have to see it. Learn to read a histogram, find the center of a batch of numbers with the average and the median, and measure its spread with the standard deviation — the three numbers that summarize almost any dataset.

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    Level 1 Variables & Distributions
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    Level 2 Histograms & the Density Scale Needs: L01
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    Level 3 The Average & the Median Needs: L02
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    Level 4 The Standard Deviation ◆◆ Needs: L03
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    Level 5 · EXAM Describing Data Exam ◆◆ Needs: L04
📜 Optional Deep Dives — go in-depth, earn XP, no pressure
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World 2

Chance

Probability & the Box Model

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Chance is a number between 0 and 1, and it obeys just two rules — add for 'or', multiply for 'and'. Build probability from the ground up, learn where independence breaks down, and meet the box model: the single picture Freedman uses to reason about every game of chance.

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    Level 6 What Is Chance? Needs: L05
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    Level 7 Adding & Multiplying Chances ◆◆ Needs: L06
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    Level 8 Conditional Probability ◆◆ Needs: L07
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    Level 9 The Box Model: Expected Value & SE ◆◆◆ Needs: L08
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    Level 10 · EXAM Chance Exam ◆◆◆ Needs: L09
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World 3

The Normal Curve

Standard Units & the 68-95-99.7 Rule

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The same bell-shaped curve turns up everywhere — test scores, heights, measurement errors, chance sums. Learn to convert any value to standard units, read areas off the normal curve, and use the 68-95-99.7 rule to answer 'how unusual is this?' at a glance.

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    Level 11 Standard Units ◆◆ Needs: L10
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    Level 12 The Normal Curve & the 68-95-99.7 Rule ◆◆ Needs: L11
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    Level 13 Percentiles & the Normal Table ◆◆◆ Needs: L12
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    Level 14 The Normal Approximation for Chances ◆◆◆ Needs: L13
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    Level 15 · EXAM Normal Curve Exam ◆◆◆ Needs: L14
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World 4

Correlation & Regression

Scatter Diagrams & the Regression Line

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When two things vary together, how do you measure it — and how do you predict one from the other? Read scatter diagrams, put a number on association with the correlation coefficient, fit the regression line, and learn the traps: outliers, the regression effect, and why correlation is not causation.

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    Level 16 Scatter Diagrams & Association ◆◆ Needs: L15
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    Level 17 The Correlation Coefficient ◆◆◆ Needs: L16
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    Level 18 The Regression Line ◆◆◆ Needs: L17
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    Level 19 Prediction & RMS Error ◆◆◆ Needs: L18
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    Level 20 · EXAM Correlation & Regression Exam ◆◆◆ Needs: L19
📜 Optional Deep Dives — go in-depth, earn XP, no pressure
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World 5

Sampling & Inference

SE, Confidence Intervals & Significance

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This is the whole point. A sample is small and random, the truth is large and fixed — how do you cross the gap? Meet the central limit theorem and the standard error, build confidence intervals, run tests of significance, and finish with the chi-square test. Earn your black belt.

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    Level 21 Samples, Populations & Bias ◆◆ Needs: L20
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    Level 22 The Central Limit Theorem & Standard Error ◆◆◆ Needs: L21
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    Level 23 Confidence Intervals ◆◆◆ Needs: L22
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    Level 24 Tests of Significance ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L23
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    Level 25 The Chi-Square Test ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L24
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    Level 26 · EXAM The Black Belt Exam ◆◆◆◆ Needs: L25
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🎮 LIVE SIMULATION · FINAL LEVEL The Newsroom One shift on the data desk. Every story is a stats trap in disguise. 🔒 Clear Level 26 to unlock
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Earn your Stat Dojo black belt

Clear all 26 levels and the five exams to walk away with a working feel for statistics: how to describe data honestly, reason about chance, use the normal curve, read a scatter and a regression line — and, above all, how a confidence interval and a test of significance turn a noisy sample into a defensible conclusion. This is the literacy behind every study, poll, and headline you'll ever read.

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