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- Approximately 80 percent of college students suffer from 'statistics anxiety'
- University of Kansas researchers sought to quantify what factors add to this fear
- Students were asked how they feel about their ability to do math, fear of statistics teachers, test and class anxiety and if they feared asking for help
Many people find math frustrating, as Daily Mail reports.
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| Many people find math frustrating. But for some, it can turn into
'statistics anxiety,' a fear of doing math problems that can be
debilitating or even stand in the way of graduation Photo: Ollyy - Shutterstock |
But
for some, it can actually turn into 'statistics anxiety,' a fear of
doing math or statistics problems that can be debilitating or even stand
in the way of graduation.
A new study
from the University of Kansas discovered which factors can contribute
to statistics anxiety and how it can be dealt with.
Previous studies have shown that some 80
percent of college students suffer from statistics anxiety, the
University of Kansas explained.
'We
teach a statistics class in the psychology department and see many
students put it off until senior year because they're scared of this
class,' Michael Vitevitch, professor and chair of psychology at the
University of Kansas, said in a statement...
They used a technique called network
science, which 'puts the most important contributors or symptoms of
statistical anxiety at the center of a visual diagram of connecting
nodes.'
'With statistics anxiety, it's
not just that you have symptoms, it's how long you have them and which
ones are more important?,' Vitevitch explained.
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Source: Daily Mail
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Source: Daily Mail
