Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society.
(2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridgway, J., Arnold, P., Moy, W., & Ridgway, R. (2017). Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society. In J. Engel (Ed.), Proceedings of the Roundtable Conference of the International Association of Statistics Education (IASE): Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society
Many governments adopt the mantra of ‘evidence informed policy’ and use ‘evidence’ to justify political decisions. Active citizenship requires an understanding of appropriate and inappropriate uses of statistics about society. A number of groups are... Read More about Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society..