1 Knowledge is Power
This brief video is covers the icebreaker I do in all of my classes. I encourage you to watch it. In it, I discuss stereotype threats and statistics anxiety.
1.1 Meet Prof. Mason
Mason Garrison is an assistant professor of quantitative psychology at Wake Forest University. She earned her PhD and MS in Quantitative Methods from Vanderbilt University, and her AB in Economics & Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research is an eclectic mix of behavior genetics, individual differences (e.g., personality, intelligence), and statistics.
On a more humanizing note, at the start of quarantine, Mason was fostering two feral kittens. They had been living behind the freshman dorms. She made the mistake of naming them. So now she has three cats…
- Tukey (namesake: John Tukey)
- Archie (namesake: Archimedes)
- Annie (namesake: Anne Anastasi)