Szász-Simon, Judit2024-09-042024-09-042004-12-01Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2004) , 265-2731589-7389https://hdl.handle.net/2437/379535The paper explains a classroom example for convincing students about the utility and applicability of statistical methods in learning getting people's opinions. The emphasis is on convincing instead of proving. The necessary statistical data may be obtained from the Internet as a digital text.application/pdfshort "hands-on" classroom practices in statisticsillustrating opinion pollsconvincing instead of provingsamplingutilizing PC-edited text as a random samplefolyóiratcikkOpen AccessJudit Szász-Simonhttps://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2004.0056Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science22Teach. Math. Comp. Sci.2676-8364