Why use data [May 22, 2012, 5:53 a.m.]
Why use data?
Please
- watch the video clip below (you might not be able to watch this during core office hours),
- answer the quiz below, and
- decide if you want to take the course!
This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
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.
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