“A short article on the Royal Statistical Society’s Statslife site by Hetan Shah (RSS Executive Director) a few days ago asserts that:
Critical thinking and stats literacy are the answers to a post-truth age. It finishes by saying that “We should explore new ways of promoting critical thinking, statistical literacy and a curious mindset among people young and old. As is so often the case, technical and policy fixes can only take us so far; education is the only sustainable answer to this major societal issue.” Shah, H. (2017, May 17).Critical thinking and stats literacy are the answers to a post-truth age https://www.statslife.org.uk/features/3460-critical-thinking-stats-literacy-are-the-answers-to-a-post-truth-age</
The RSS site is worth exploring further, especially the Resources section, where the section “for journalists” could be equally useful for students: it includes exercises, presentations etc. https://www.statslife.org.uk/
When I was actively involved in the production of statistics and/or reporting on stats that other people had produced I used the RSS site frequently. I also went to meetings of labour market statisticians and others.
I miss those activities but life changes. H
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