Happy New Year --
Perhaps Laurie Snell will make a good start through the future
CHANCE issues.
-- Joe
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bokhorst, Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: topic?
> 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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