Collective statistical illiteracy (2010)
Authors
Abstract
Editors of medical journals must lead the effort to call for complete and transparent statistical reporting so that numbers are clear to journalists and the public. Finally, we need to change school curricula. Our children learn the mathematics of certainty, such as geometry and trigo? nometry, but not the mathematics of uncertainty, that is, statistical thinking. Statistical literacy should be taught as early as reading and writing are.
Bibliographic entry
Gigerenzer, G. (2010). Collective statistical illiteracy. Archives of Internal Medicine, 170, 468-469. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2009.515 (Full text)
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| Publication year | 2010 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
| External URL: | http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Collective_2010.pdf View | |
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| Keywords: | adultcurriculumdecision makingeducationeducational statusethnological researchfemalegermanyhumanmalemedicalmiddle agepublishingstatisticsunited states |