Bob Hayden asked:
> Anybody have anything to say about statistical education???
I would like to turn the question round, and ask if it might be
possible to summarize relevant material from the recent discussion
on the forum about the US election saga into a form suitable for
teaching purposes?
In particular, to sift through the EDSTAT archive and edit a
resource text.
There was much off-topic discussion, but there was also a huge
volume of generally polite and reasonable talk with many good
points illustrating key issues relevant to education. The topic
itself was extremely pertinent and interesting to a wide audience.
For example, someone recently asked for examples of the misuse of
statistics - surely many examples could be found in the US election
saga? What we need is a good summary.
As another example, I note that Herman Rubin frequently argues
the need for proper understanding of statistics: Could he, or
someone anybody else on the EDSTAT forum, perhaps help educators
by compiling some examples that arose in the recent discussion?
What kind of understanding of statistics might be required of
lawyers, politicians, voters, media editors?
Maybe someone could list key points that came out of these EDSTAT
discussions?
Frank Bokhorst
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