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 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)].
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) ;
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).
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).