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Statistics: On Comprehending the Null Hypothesis

When last week Kyle presented Null-Hypothesis Statistical Testing, he emphasized that it’s essentially the basis of testing and analysis in the social sciences. With import like that, the null hypothesis itself certainly calls for clear explication; so, this week, in our excerpt from his seminar on foundational statistics, our tutor Kyle T. takes a closer look at the null hypothesis and, specifically, how exactly it operates as a standard in research.

Next week he’ll build on this conceptual understanding of the logic of testing by introducing the first of the actual mathematical tests conductible in social-scientific research.

Stay tuned, students!

The Veritas Team

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By admin | Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 | No Comments »

Statistics: On Null-Hypothesis Statistical Testing

This week, Kyle T. expands the foundation of Statistics that he began laying down in his previous video; having established the background of the normal distribution and the purpose of inferential statistics, he today explains the fundamental test in social-scientific research: the null-hypothesis test.

Happy Daylight Savings, all!

The Veritas Team

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By admin | Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 | No Comments »

Statistics: On Measurement, the Normal Distribution, and the Two Types of Statistics

Greetings, stats. and social-sciences students!

We here at the blog apologize for missing our weekly installment last week, but hope to make it up to you this week with not just one but two substantial new videos from Kyle T.’s seminar! In these videos, Kyle discusses the various types of measurement and statistics that can be taken and performed, to describe and analyze data. He also explains the useful abstraction that is the Normal Distribution, a concept (as he equates) as fundamental to statistics as the concept of the circle is to geometry. Exciting stuff!

Next week: Null-Hypothesis Statistical Testing, the backbone of practically all social-scientific research-analyses. Stay tuned!

Yours,

The Veritas Team (more…)

By admin | Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 | No Comments »

Statistics: Introduction & Overview

Welcome, aspiring statisticians and social scientists! The Veritas Blog is happy to premiere its new series, geared entirely to you.

Tutor Kyle T., whom some of you may remember from our returning series on the GRE, today gives us all a brief overview of what this series will cover and how it will cover it. In short, this series will be a comprehensive and direct presentation of what statistics are and how and why they are used in the social sciences; thus, it is designed so that you may take from it a basic, working understanding of statistical tests and descriptors that you will then be able to apply to either generating your own research or considering and comprehending others’.

We hope that you’re as excited as we are! Stay tuned; next week we’ll dive right into the content.

Yours,

The Veritas Team

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By admin | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Admissions: In Summary

Wrapping up the Veritas College-Admissions series, co-founders Andrew M. and Jay B. underscore the key take-aways from their presentation, “How to Get into (Your) Harvard.” Relating the story of a past applicant, they remind us how getting into (your) Harvard is not about being involved in a million activities in high school, but rather finding what you love and pursuing excellence at it.

Intro. statistics and social-sciences students, stay tuned; next week, the Veritas Blog will premiere its new series on introductory statistics, geared for social-scientific research!

Happy Presidents’ Weekend, all!
The Veritas Team

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By admin | Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 | No Comments »

GRE: On Prime Factorization and Numerical Scale

Closing out 2010 and – incidentally – the first season of the Veritas Blog’s GRE Series, class-leader Kyle T. returns to Math and discusses the benefits of two specific numerical strategies on the GRE: prime factorization and numerical scale.

Rejoin us in the new year for all new posts, not only in the GRE Series but also in debuting series on College-Admissions, Statistics, and the MCAT. Happy 2011, all!

Warmly yours,

The Veritas Team

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By admin | Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

GRE: On Antonyms

From Analogies to Antonyms, this week Veritas’ GRE class-leader Kyle T. outlines the best strategies for approaching GRE Antonym questions and GRE Verbal overall. Drawing on his background in linguistic psychology, Kyle provides unique and valuable tools to GRE-preparers who may often find themselves daunted by the challenging and unusual words tested on the exam. Why are so many “sn-” words nose-related anyway? Stay tuned.

Happy holidays!

The Veritas Team

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By admin | Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 | No Comments »

GRE: On Math

For our fourth installment of clips from Veritas Tutors’ Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class, we at Veritas have decided to deliver the best of GRE Math. In our last post, class-leader Kyle T. introduced some truly solid and illuminative strategies for approaching both Quantitative Comparison and Problem-Solving, the two major types of GRE Math question. Now, in this post, Kyle expounds on these strategies by explaining how to cleverly reframe challenging problems and then let these perspectival alterations positively inform your work. As Kyle himself says, “You need to know the material [tested by the GRE], but you really need to [...] get in[to] the head of the GRE. It’s going to get into your head at first, but you need to [...] get in[to its] head. [Then it's] like, ‘O! Cool, I see what you’re doing here.’” Adopting this downright smart approach to taking the GRE is an advanced strategy that Kyle will describe in greater detail in the blog’s next clips-installment.

Stay tuned!
The Veritas Team

On Thinking of Numbers as Measures of Space in Calculations:

On Savvily Overcoming the Seeming Challenges of GRE Math:

On Reasserting Wits, or “Knowing What You Don’t Need to Know,” in Challenging GRE Math Problems:

By admin | Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

GRE: FAQs – Take 2

Jumping off the theme of our last clips-installment, the Veritas blog is happy to now present a third installment of clips, excerpt from Veritas Tutors’ Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class.  These new clips focus, as will all the clips to follow, on the FAQs central to taking the GRE and to succeeding in doing so. The three clips embedded in this post specifically address (1) working with the implications of the GRE’s computer-adaptive scoring system and (2) preparing for and approaching the Verbal, Math, and Writing portions of the GRE at the most basic levels.

Look out for future posts with more advanced content here, on our blog, soon!

Warmly yours,

The Veritas Team

On Taking the Computer-Adaptive GRE:

On Rehearsing GRE Vocabulary:

On Approaching GRE Math:

On Excelling at GRE Analytical Writing:

By admin | Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 | 1 Comment »

GRE: FAQs

The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) inspires many questions in its takers, but some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) are not truly central to the actual test’s being taken. In response to these tributary FAQs about the GRE, we are proud to present here on the Veritas blog a second installment of clips from Kyle T.’s Spring 2010 GRE Prep. class. These clips and more may all be found on our recently inaugurated Veritas Tutors YouTube channel for more information.

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By admin | Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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