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The treatment of kurtosis in textbooks is both sparse and contradictory with applications rarely discussed. To address this, an easily understood definition of kurtosis is introduced and important applications are demonstrated. Two different approaches to teaching kurtosis are presented based on a financial application.

Investigates the perception of undergraduate students of the quality of teaching business statistics. Identification of the most important tasks of a statistics teacher considered by the students; Examination of the effects of poor teaching on mastering the subject.