98% OF ALL STATSITICS ARE MADE UP – Statistical Literacy in the new curriculum
Draft New Curriculum:
3 / Evaluate the effectiveness of different displays in representing the findings of a statistical investigaiton or probability activiity undertaken by others.
4 / Evaluate statements made by others about the findings of statistical investigations and probability acitivities.
5 / Evaluate statistical investigations or probability activities undertaken by others, including data collection methods, choice of measures, and validity of findings.
6 / Evaluate statistical reports in themedia by relating the displays, statistics, processes and probabilities used to the claims made.
7 / Evaluate statistically based reports:
o Interpreting risk and relative risk;
o Idenitfying sampling and possible non-sampling errors in surverys, including polls.
8 / Evaluate a wide range of statistically based reports, including surveys and polls, experiments, and observational stuides:
o Critiquing causal-relationship claims;
o Interpreting margins of error
Africa
Americas
Eastern Mediterranean
Europe
South East Asia
Western Pacific
CONNECT IT / Are there any relationships and / or connections you can see in the data? /
USE IT / What could you use this data to show? /
KEY IDEAS OF IT / What conclusions can you draw from this data? /
WHERE IS
IT GOING / What can you extrapolate from this data?
REMEMBER IT / What is memorable about this data? /
CREATE IT / Create a story to describe what you see in the data. / COMPARE &
CONTRAST IT / What is another data set that you could compare / contrast with this data set? /
EXPLAIN IT / Describe what you see in the data.
PLAN IT / Use the PPDAC cycle to analyse this data. / LOOK AT IT
ANOTHER WAY / What does this data not show? /
REFLECT
ON IT / What have you learnt from analysing this data? /
BRAINSTORM IT / What do you notice?
POSITIVES &
NEGATIVES OF IT / What are the limitations / justifications of this data? /
DISSECT IT / What is the source of this data? /
EVALUATE IT / How reliable is this data? /
QUESTION IT / What questions does this data answer? What questions does it raise?
CONNECT IT /
USE IT /
KEY IDEAS OF IT /
WHERE IS
IT GOING
REMEMBER IT /
CREATE IT / COMPARE &
CONTRAST IT /
EXPLAIN IT
PLAN IT / LOOK AT IT
ANOTHER WAY /
REFLECT
ON IT /
BRAINSTORM IT
POSITIVES &
NEGATIVES OF IT /
DISSECT IT /
EVALUATE IT /
QUESTION IT
Chris Jordan…
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.
Author: Unknown
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
Author:Lewis Carroll
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Author:Fletcher Knebel
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
Author:George Gallup
98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. ~W.I.E. Gates
Statistics: "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis
Specific / general
Individual / aggregate