Each year's edition contains selected news and pictures involving books, grants, conferences and articles related to statistical literacy, quantitative literacy, numeracy, quantitative reasoning and statistical reasoning.
Making history:
The years:
| StatLit 2015 | Current News |
| StatLit 2014 | “Statisticians have mis-measured uncertainty”: Herbert Weisberger in Willful Ignorance |
| StatLit 2013 | “Confounding and variation: the two major themes in data analysis”. See Tintle et al. |
| StatLit 2012 | The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck ... by Michael J. Mauboussin |
| StatLit 2011 | Special Statistical Literacy issue: SJIAOS. Augsburg offers teacher-training online. |
| StatLit 2010 | Wired Magazine picks Statistical Literacy for Wired University. Flyer |
| StatLit 2009 | AACU develops rubric for Quantitative Literacy. |
| StatLit 2008 | New Journal: Numeracy. |
| StatLit 2007 | Rossman: GAISE goals cannot be fully achieved in a traditional methods course. |
| StatLit 2006 | ASA GAISE concludes “Introductory courses should ...emphasize statistical literacy...” |
| StatLit 2005 | Bernie Madison develops News Math: a Q/L course that uses the news. |
| StatLit 2004 | Howard Wainer features a new graphical technique that illustrates confounding. |
| StatLit 2003 | Joel Best addresses the ASA JSM on the social construction of statistics. |
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