Invisible Learning: The magic behind Dan Levy's legendary Harvard statistics course

by David Franklin

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be plenty of analytic physicians who read the Wall Street Journal and diversify their portfolios. Suppose that only 1 in 20 physicians share these characteristics, and that all finance professors do. Then if we count the number of

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even when statistically significant results are

the class. Those who want more rigour may be frustrated by the lack of mathematical proofs. Those who think behavioural science deserved its Nobel Prize in 2017 may be delighted by his approach

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will be disappointed. Dan has no chance of pleasing

of the students to ensure he is not deauthorised.

him to teach in a certain way, perhaps more in line with the traditional method they were taught themselves. And there may be those who do not see Dan’s passion for teaching as an important asset to the school, preferring to promote top-class researchers.

rising from his chair. “We

years from now?” Up on the screen is a word-cloud of their responses. Figure 16.2: word cloud