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STATISTICAL LITERACY FOR ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP: A CALL FOR DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION

Author(s) -

Joachim Engel

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

statistics education research journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538

H-Index - 14

ISSN - 1570-1824

DOI - 10.52041/serj.v16i1.213

Subject(s) - statistics education , mathematics education , literacy , citizenship , sociology , political science , social science , public relations , psychology , pedagogy , law , politics

Data are abundant, quantitative information about the state of society and the wider world is around us more than ever. Paradoxically, recent trends in the public discourse point towards a post-factual world that seems content to ignore or misrepresent empirical evidence. As statistics educators we are challenged to promote understanding of statistics about society. In order to re-root public debate to be based on facts instead of emotions and to promote evidence-based policy decisions, statistics education needs to embrace two areas widely neglected in secondary and tertiary education: understanding of multivariate phenomena and the thinking with and learning from complex data. First published May 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

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