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[Phys-l] Statistical Illiteracy - ERRATUM & ADDENDA

For my previous post "Statistical Illiteracy" [Hake (2008a)] here is one erratum and six addenda:

ERRATUM
I referenced:

Green, C. 2008." Why do we have journals again?" TIPS post of 24 Oct 2008 08:19:19-0700; online at <http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@acsun.frostburg.edu/msg26734.htm>.

The URL should have been written:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@acsun.frostburg.edu/msg26734.html>.

I thank Dave Renfro of the Math-Teach list for pointing out this error and providing evidence that at least one person noticed "Statistical Illiteracy" [Hake (2008a)].

ADDENDA
1. In response to "Statistical Illiteracy" [Hake (2008a)], Dave Dillard (2008), reference librarian at Temple University, expert internet searcher, and founder/manager of the NetGold <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/net-gold/> wrote:

"I must confess with all the adjectives describing literacy and illiteracy, I have not run into statistics within my memory as one of them and this is clearly an important area for concern about illiteracy and an important literacy frontier, so here to supplement. . . .[Hake (2008a)] . . . is a bit of digging into the resources one can find regarding statistical literacy and illiteracy. . . .[see Dillard (2008)]. . . .

The indefatigable Dillard (2008) gives URL's (both long and tiny) for both "statistical illiteracy" and "statistical literacy" for his searches of:
(a) Google <http://www.google.com/>,
(b) Google News <http://news.google.com/>,
(c) Google Images <http://images.google.com/>,
(d) Google Scholar <http://scholar.google.com/>,
(e) Google Books <http://books.google.com/>,
(f) Google U.S. Government <http://www.google.com/unclesam>,
(g) Google Blog Search <http://blogsearch.google.com/>, &
(h) Google Groups <http://groups.google.com/>.

The next 5 addenda are all derived from Dave Dillard's Diligent Digging (many thanks to Dave!):
2. Regarding statistical illiteracy see "Sound Reasoning Requires Statistical Understanding" Gigerenzer (2008).

3. For a psychologist's review of Gigerenzer et al. (2008) see "Statistical Literacy: A Prerequisite for Evidence-Based Medicine" [Monahan (2008)].

4. For a Wikipedia article on "Statistical Literacy" see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_literac>.

5. For the Google Blog Search see <http://blogsearch.google.com/>. As of today, blog searches for "Statistical Literacy" and "Statistical Illiteracy" yield, respectively, 286 hits at <http://tinyurl.com/6mxy5p> and 146 hits at <http://tinyurl.com/5e9xhe>.

6. Two Blogs on Statistical Literacy that appear in "Over Fifty Education Blogs" [Hake (2008b] are:

a. Joel Best, John Allen Paulos, Gerald Bracey, Howard Wainer, Gerd Gigerenzer, & Dennis Haack - Statistical Literacy: <http://www.statlit.org/> (click on each of the five brown boxes at the top of the page) ;

b. Dan Schafer (Professor of Statistics, Oregon State University) - Statistical Literacy for Efficient Citizenship: <http://oregonstate.edu/~schaferd/blog/?cat=2>.

Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands.
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi/>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com/>

REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy <http://tinyurl.com/create.php>. All URL's were accessed on 25 November 2008).]
Dillard, D.P. 2008. "Statistical Literacy and Illiteracy"; online at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/25979>.

Gigerenzer, G. 2008. "Sound Reasoning Requires Statistical Understanding." Science News 7 November; online at <http://tinyurl.com/5d5c5j>.

Gigerenzer, G., W. Gaissmaier, E. Kurz-Milcke, L.M. Schwartz, & S. 2008. "Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics," Psychological Science In The Public Interest 8(2): 53-96; online at <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_8_2_article.pdf> (1.8MB).

Google Blog Search <http://blogsearch.google.com/>. A blogsearch for "Statistical Illiteracy" (Statistical Literacy) yields 146 hits at <http://tinyurl.com/5e9xhe> ( 286 hits at
<http://tinyurl.com/6mxy5p>.

Hake, R.R. 2005. "Cross-Posting - Synergistic or Sinful?" Post of 1 Nov 2005 08:37:12-0800 to ITFORUM and AERA-L; online at at <http://tinyurl.com/2m59v4>.

Hake, R.R. 2007. "Over Sixty Academic Discussion Lists: List Addresses and URL's for Archives & Search Engines," (640 kB), or as ref. 49 at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>.

Hake, R.R. 2008a. "Statistical Illiteracy," online on the OPEN! Net-Gold archives at <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/25978>. Post of 22 Nov 2008 13:17:29-0800 to AERA-C, AERA-D, AERA-I, AERA-J, AERA-K, AERA-L, AP-Physics, ASSESS, Biolab (rejected), Biopi-L, Chemed-L, DrEd, EdResMeth, EdStat (rejected), EvalTalk, Math-Learn, Math-Teach, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, PhysSoc, POD, PsychTeacher (rejected), RUME, STLHE-L, TeachingEdPsych, TIPS, & WBTOLL-L. For a guide to discussion lists see Hake (2007). For a defense of cross-posting see Hake (2005).

Hake, R.R. 2008b. "Over Fifty Education Blogs," AERA-L post of 25 Nov 2008 15:24:42-0800; online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/5v55tg>. This is an expansion and correction of the previous "Thirty-two Education Blogs" Hake (2008c).

Hake, R.R. 2008c. "Thirty-two Education Blogs," AERA-L post of 7 Nov 2008 16:38:18-080; online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/6leyj6>.
Monahan, J. 2008. "Statistical Literacy: A Prerequisite for Evidence-Based Medicine, APS Observer 21(9); online at <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2411>. A review of Gigerenzer et al. (2008).