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Peer reviewedCox, Caryl; Mouw, John T. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
The explicit, experimental introduction of a series of logical inconsistencies is described and recommended as a means of disrupting the faulty logic and, thereby, enhancing the use of more appropriate probabilistic reasoning by graduate students enrolled in an introductory inferential statistics course. (14 references) (JJK)
Descriptors: Heuristics, Higher Education, Logical Thinking, Mathematics Education
