Statistical Illiteracy

Some blog readers may be interested in two discussion-list posts stimulated by Gigerenzer et al. (2008) :

1.  "Statistical Illiteracy," accessible on the OPEN AERA-L archives by clicking on http://tinyurl.com/75lnj5 and 

2. "Statistical Illiteracy- Erratum & Addendum," accessible on the OPEN AERA-L archives by clicking on  http://tinyurl.com/92bkpd  .

REFERENCES

Gigerenzer, G., W. Gaissmaier, E. Kurz-Milcke, L.M. Schwartz, & S. Woloshin. 2008. "Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics," Psychological Science in the Public Interest 8(2): 53-56; online as a 1.8 MB pdf at  http://tinyurl.com/5adsjx