Re: Required Statistical Literacy Course for All Students? #2

Some blog followers may be interested in a recent post of the above title [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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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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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? #2, 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.

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 brought this article to my attention.