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Statistical literacy is a way of learning to reason from data at a deep level. Older approaches to "statistics" promoted "chugging and plugging", encouraging people to value the ability to select a technique from a menu and correctly apply am arithmetic procedure. Instead, we need people to be able to ask fundamental questions of data, and understand how well they can make decisions based on that data, the way it was collected and the way it may be related to other data.
Please have a good look at the graph below (you should alter the lines being displayed by clicking in the top right hand corner of the graph).
http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/PTW/Sheet1
Task Comment on what the plot of motorcycle deaths and motorcycle ownership seems to be showing you? Does it differ from what you see when you think of all road deaths? Do you think there is a rate we should be measuring here?
