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Teaching Statistics - Despite its Applications. (2007)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & McCusker, S. (2007). Teaching Statistics - Despite its Applications. Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Statistics and Data Science Teaching, 29(2), 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2007.00276.x

Evidence-based policy requires sophisticated modelling and reasoning about complex social data. The current UK statistics curricula do not equip tomorrow's citizens to understand such reasoning. We advocate radical curriculum reform, designed to requ... Read More about Teaching Statistics - Despite its Applications..

Reasoning with Multivariate Evidence. (2007)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & McCusker, S. (2007). Reasoning with Multivariate Evidence

Reasoning with evidence about realistic situations - education, health, crime, social change, climate change - is inherently problematic. Evidence is often multivariate; relationships between variables are rarely linear; variables interact, and show... Read More about Reasoning with Multivariate Evidence..