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Re: [Phys-l] Required Statistical Literacy Course for All Students? #2



Some subscribers to the Phys-L may be interested in a recent post "Re: Required Statistical Literacy Course for All Students?" [Hake (2010)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: Jonathan Groves, in a MathEDCC post "Required Statistical Literacy Course for All Students?" wrote: ". . . . a required statistical literacy course of some sort for all college students (and probably for high school students as well) is a great idea. . . . . The lack of such a universal requirement keeps the public at large in the dark when statistics is purposefully abused to suit certain people's purposes rather than used to arrive at the truth." The statistical illiteracy of the general population was also pointed out in: (a) "Statistical Illiteracy" [Hake (2008a)],
(b) "Statistical Illiteracy - ERRATUM & ADDENDA" [Hake (2008b)], and (c) "Chances Are? [Strogatz (2010)]; all of whom point to the work of Gerd Gigerenzer - see e.g., Gigerenzer (2003) & Gigerenzer et al. (2008).
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To access the complete 11 kB post, please click on <http://tinyurl.com/2af6sw3>.


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize
the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
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<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
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<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>

"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write."
H.G. Wells (1866-1946)


REFERENCES [Tiny URL's courtesy http://tinyurl.com/create.php.]
Gigerenzer, G. 2003. "Calculated risks: How to know when numbers deceive you." Simon & Schuster, publisher's information at <http://tinyurl.com/2u2bp7j>. Barnes & Nobel information including a sample chapter and the Table of Contents is at <http://tinyurl.com/26k34q3>. Amazon.com information for the 1986 edition at <http://tinyurl.com/2d4pq8z>. Note the searchable "Look Inside" feature.

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> (1.8 MB).

Groves, J. 2010. " Required Statistical Literacy Course for All Students?" Math-Teach post of 14 April 2010 12:06 pm; online at <http://tinyurl.com/38qbtqp>.

Hake, R.R. 2008a. "Statistical Illiteracy," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/2wa93fp>. Post of 22 Nov 2008 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, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, Physhare, PhysSoc, POD, PsychTeacher (rejected), STLHE-L, TeachingEdPsych, TIPS, & WBTOLL-L.

Hake, R.R. 2008b. "Statistical Illiteracy - ERRATUM & ADDENDA," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/2b2tcau>. Post of 25 Nov 2008 17:05:45 -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, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, Physhare, PhysSoc, POD, PsychTeacher (rejected), STLHE-L, TeachingEdPsych, TIPS, & WBTOLL-L.

Hake, R.R. 2010. Re: Required Statistical Literacy Course for All Students?
online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://tinyurl.com/2af6sw3>. Post of 2 May 2010 14:46:37-0700 to AERA-L, MathEDCC, Math-Learn, Math-Teach, & NetGold. The abstract and the link to the complete post are being transmitted to various discussion lists and are also online at
<http://hakesedstuff.blogspot.com/2010/05/re-required-statistical-literacy-course.html> with a provision for comments.

Strogatz. S. 2010. "Chances Are," NY Times, 25 April; online at <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/chances-are/> along with 231 (!) readers' comments as of 2 May 2010 11:53:00-0700. I thank Dennis Edinger whose SClistserve post <http://tinyurl.com/38z3o9v> brought this article to my attention.