Precisión de los estudiantes de psicología en la estimación de la asociación

Contingency tables are frequently used to present statistical information in the media and the Internet, as well as in technical documents used for professional work. However, they are rarely taken into account in the teaching of statistics, since their interpretation is considered easy. In this paper, we analyse the perception of association and the estimation of its intensity in contingency tables in a sample of psychology students. We observe similar responses in the three universities in the sample, and high consistency between the subjective perception of association and the accuracy of e...