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:

•   Univ. of New Mexico (UNM):  Math 1300 Statistical Literacy

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.

FUN ACTIVITIES
For fun, try the Baby Name Voyager. Type a name at the blinking cursor. See what happens! Check out Swivel: a You-tube for data.  "Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data. As a preview it's rough around the edges. May your love for data guide you."   Swivel graph types and test data
StatLit News	Search StatLit Site
2013, '12, '11, 10, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03	Search the web   Search this site