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		09/23/19

StatLit.org Site: Mission, Administration and Site Statistics

The primary goal of this site is to present statistical literacy as an interdisciplinary activity.
As such it has overlaps with quantitative reasoning, quantitative literacy, numeracy and statistical reasoning.
This site features books, papers and activities related to statistical literacy -- taken broadly from a variety of disciplines.
Those in one discipline may be unaware of what those in other disciplines are doing.
This site tries to bridge those disciplinary boundaries and provide a single source for related materials.

A secondary goal is to present statistical literacy as the study of statistics in everyday arguments. See Schield (2000b) and Schield (2004c).
This features, but is not limited to, the activities of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project at Augsburg College.
The W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project features a statistical literacy that focuses on

how all statistics are socially constructed. See Best (2002), Best (2007) and Schield (2007a).
the role of context and the influence of confounders. See Schield (2006).
the use of rates and percentages to take into account related factors. See Schield (2004a).
the ability to communicate conditional probabilities using ordinary English. See Burnham and Schield (2006).
the ability to read and interpret tables and graphs of rates and percentages. See Schield (2001) and Schield (2006).
the need for exercises that promote hypothetical thinking. See Schield (2007b).
the role of chance given a large number of trials (the unlikely is almost certain). See Schield (2005).
the influence of a confounder on statistical significance. See Schield (2004b).

Comments are welcomed.
Suggestions on materials for this site are provided by correspondents world-wide.
Correspondents include members of the ASA, IASE, RSS, MAA, NNN and IASSIST.

The site is independent of any organization.
The papers listed make assertions; this site focuses primarily on providing access to the papers.
Listing an author's paper or showing their picture does not imply the author's review or approval.
Listing a conference does not imply review or approval by the organization sponsoring the conference.

On the StatLit2008 web page, some links to Amazon.com carried a reference to this site.
This site receives a 4% or 6% commission on purchases made by referrals from that page.
This commission is the only revenue generated by this site and is used for site maintenance.

Milo Schield is the editor, webmaster and owner of this site. You can contact him at Schield@Augsburg.edu
Milo is the Director of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy project and the Vice President of the National Numeracy Network.
He is a past-President of the Twin Cities chapter of the American Statistical Association.
He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the US Representative of the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP).

StatLit.org: Site Statistics

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2013-04-18: www.Statlit.org is ranked #7,256,438 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. The site has been online for at least eleven years, and the site is located in the US. Alexa Traffic Global Rank 7,256,438; Global Reputation: 78
* Global Traffic Rank: A rough estimate of statlit.org's popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to statlit.org and pageviews on statlit.org over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.
* Global Reputation: Sites linking. In A measure of statlit.org's reputation. The number of links to statlit.org from sites visited by users in the Alexa traffic panel. Links that were not seen by users in the Alexa traffic panel are not counted. Multiple links from the same site are only counted once.

2013-04-19: www.afshinashofteh.com. Alexa Traffic Rank: 28,053,754. Sites Linking In: 4

2013-04-19: www.makingfaircomparisons.us/ Alexa Traffic Rank: 22,851,161. Sites Linking In: 6

2013-04-18: Stats.org.uk is ranked #4,511,442 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. Reputation 36.

2013-04-19: Stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 1,244,230. Roughly 23% of the site's visitors are in the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 664,870. Reputation: No data. International Association for Statistical Education (IASE).

2013-04-19: Understandinguncertainty.org's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 752,471. 394 Sites Linking In.

2013-04-18: www.stats.org. Alexa Traffic Rank: 987,619; Traffic Rank in US: 467,655. Sites Linking In: 1,144

2013-04-18: andrewgelman.com. Alexa Traffic Rank: 290,076 United States Traffic Rank: 147,648 . Sites Linking In: 884

2013-04-19: Badscience.net's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 212,053; Reputation: 3,943. Ben Goldacre's column from The Guardian in weblog format. Covers media misrepresentations of science, with a particular focus on medicine. Includes a forum.

2013-04-19: www.amstat.org. Alexa Traffic Rank: 198,441. Sites Linking In: 2,788.

StatLit.org Site Visits (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1	2,798	3,108	8,320	6,932	8,585	14,148	15,379	13,722	14,840	19,038	25,208	25,154	23,277	22,985
2	2,976	2,934	6,220	7,981	9,324	13,161	14,362	14,607	14,622	17,970	23,961	25,383	20,364	26,145
3	3,188	5,897	6,959	7,781	9,574	14,792	15,054	15,240	18,160	20,397	27,250	26,417	24,556	29,112
4	3,057	5,109	7,072	10,126	9,342	14,361	15,423	14,818	16,434	21,611	25,974	23,894	26,009	28,081
5	3,169	5,426	7,386	10,140	8,885	14,981	14,884	15,169	16,098	21,416	24,691	24,949	24,519	28,027
6	2,857	5,153	9,621	8,765	9,161	14,071	12,418	13,460	17,128	21,027	24,796	23,563	23,008	26,068
7	3,206	4,574	8,623	8,385	9,603	13,540	12,064	14,405	16,916	24,553	24,906	22,195	21,609	26,569
8	2,878	3,887	6,522	8,020	12,258	14,661	13,003	14,087	16,498	18,719	27,113	22,939	22,479	27,128
9	2,751	4,458	5,602	8,252	13,275	15,881	14,716	15,723	17,992	21,422	25,497	20,314	24,804	29,780
10	3,220	5,274	5,663	9,246	14,697	15,885	14,268	17,793	18,314	27,850	24,672	23,218	24,635	35,691
11	3,576	5,775	5,981	8,830	13,266	15,591	14,763	17,645	18,224	24,104	23,237	20,109	25,192	33,160
12	4,105	7,803	7,200	8,502	14,020	13,569	13,419	14,488	19,702	24,417	26,332	21,399	24,134	30,259
ALL	37,781	59,398	85,169	102,960	131,990	174,641	169,753	168,207	204,928	262,524	303,637	279,534	284,586	343,005

Omit bogus hits for site pictures. Includes student-generated visits.

StatLit.org Downloads (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1	1,500	2,579	4,893	5,755	11,850	22,264	19,279	17,245	20,859	21,910	29,649	40,039	36,422	28,192
2	1,500	2,346	3,707	7,092	12,115	19,094	16,819	19,653	20,431	24,946	31,729	68,503	35,678	34,374
3	1,500	4,036	4,248	6,615	11,131	17,961	16,181	24,325	20,840	26,701	37,118	49,348	33,990	40,452
4	1,500	3,146	4,730	8,206	9,617	20,369	16,349	22,425	20,443	31,919	31,517	42,421	31,517	37,173
5	1,500	3,730	5,070	9,338	9,850	19,528	18,100	21,916	26,244	32,807	34,063	45,936	33,573	37,001
6	1,500	3,464	6,241	8,047	14,263	14,486	13,188	17,828	18,629	30,444	36,788	31,703	31,785	37,226
7	1,795	3,459	6,543	9,426	11,495	14,804	13,071	17,537	23,744	36,507	32,168	31,478	26,346	36,933
8	2,011	3,704	5,550	9,232	14,829	16,421	17,581	20,288	22,494	38,982	42,201	30,831	32,186	40,879
9	2,034	3,512	5,398	8,689	22,387	16,605	18,608	21,369	22,022	44,706	46,655	33,807	31,260	39,795
10	2,496	3,581	6,023	11,280	25,761	15,868	16,489	21,246	22,024	28,710	40,351	36,129	33,253	54,642
11	2,516	3,348	7,270	11,958	19,876	16,192	14,987	22,985	23,724	28,242	32,515	32,271	34,242	39,276
12	2,879	4,955	6,755	10,397	20,353	13,360	14,778	18,969	23,665	24,417	40,716	31,667	28,920	37,805
ALL	22,731	41,860	66,428	106,035	183,527	206,592	195,430	245,786	265,119	367,513	435,470	473,593	389,172	461,808

* 2005: Jan-June are estimated.

StatLit.org Page Views (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1	2,000	1,829	4,504	4,478	5,902	8,602	9,367	10,794	11,346	13,424	15,444	12,883	14,910	13,024
2	2,000	1,790	3,410	4,840	6,169	8,388	9,351	10,951	11,856	12,315	14,633	13,553	11,217	14,168
3	2,000	3,151	3,932	5,042	5,785	8,590	10,171	11,165	13,600	12,931	18,385	12,575	16,864	20,131
4	2,000	2,546	3,510	5,086	5,202	8,452	10,288	11,435	13,438	12,861	16,360	12,643	16,360	15,568
5	2,000	3,326	4,189	6,092	5,738	8,950	10,270	12,173	12,964	13,401	15,856	12,716	18,162	14,458
6	2,000	3,390	4.319	5,853	5,834	7,089	8,755	10.543	12,753	14,197	14,762	12,896	16,379	13,695
7	2,256	2,447	3,778	5.243	5,851	7,315	9,658	9,487	14,525	15,177	15,819	14,118	14,566	14,848
8	3,129	2,584	3,388	5,077	6,030	9,093	10,046	9,486	12,387	13,477	16,737	14,010	15,019	15,743
9	2,695	2,242	2,936	4,756	6,934	11,768	12,710	9,678	12,753	13,925	13,301	13,422	17,187	13,983
10	3,156	2,679	3,158	5,481	8,829	8,793	11,020	10,485	12,397	17,449	11,811	15,368	14,503	16,560
11	3,198	3,267	4,763	5,634	7,757	8,646	10,806	11,440	11,762	15,710	13,635	14,352	13,038	17,191
12	3,302	4,388	4,722	6,343	8,008	9,095	10,417	10,465	12,050	15,361	14,550	16,872	13,611	15,641
ALL	29,763	33,639	46,610	63,952	78.099	104,781	122,859	129,930	151,831	170,228	181,293	165,408	181,866	185,010

* 2005: Jan-June are estimated. 2014 Statistics for Page Views were mistakenly entered using Site Visits. Corrected on 9/15/2016.

StatLit.org INDEX Views (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
1						1,613	1,680	2,459	3,070	3,977	6,887	4,383	6,011	5,929
2						1,498	1,756	2,787	3,416	3,532	6,559	4,273	5,973	5,448
3						1,540	2,255	2,367	4,610	3,571	8,746	4,378	6,327	7,073
4						1,569	2,847	2,540	3,871	3,612	7,481	4,025	7,481	5,036
5						1,962	2,224	2,670	4,139	4,096	5,749	4,291	7,219	5,613
6						1,431	2,177	2,679	4,656	3,530	6,968	4,514	6,687	5,121
7						1,348	2,214	2,100	4,575	3,281	6,974	5,166	6,730	6,437
8						2,731	2,192	2,185	3,993	3,536	6,386	5,422	6,824	8,339
9						3,750	3,346	2,134	3,787	3,643	4,037	5,587	6,773	5,646
10						2,007	2,258	2,286	4,151	4,562	4,043	5,981	5,764	6,465
11						2,080	2,749	2,527	3,815	6,200	4,489	5,357	5,641	6,185
12						1,630	2,568	2,820	3,591	6,936	5,190	5,495	5,502	5,610
ALL	4,484	12,666	11,010	10,650	15,676	23,159	28,266	29,554	47,674	50,476	73,509	58,872	76,932	72,902

* 2005: Jan-June are estimated.

StatLit Site Hit Count (FrontPage Hit Counter): 1,021 (11/01 - 10/02), 1,031 (10/02 - 10/03), 1,567 (11/03 - 10/04).

206 hits 11/09/04 (after site xfer before update). 642 hits 11/01-11/31/04. 906 hits 11/01-12/31/04 1190 hits 11/01-2/06/05

ANNUAL WEB STATISTICS : www.STATLIT.org (WEB Statistics generated by LiveStats after 6/2005)

#	#	#	#						%Chg	%Chg	%Ch	%Ch	%Ch	%Ch	%Ch
2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012		2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
37,781	59,398	85,169	102,960	131,990	174,641	169,753	168,207	Visits	57%	43%	21%	28%	32%	-10%	-1%
29,736	64,964	73,720	69,468	82,972	104,781	122,859	129,930	Page Views	118%	13%	-6%	19%	26%	11%	-6%
527,416	654,722	459,479	898,056	1,242,994	1,618,394	1,613,195	1,498,468	Hits	24%	-30%	95%	38%	30%	-1%	-7%
6,949	10,889	16,060	22,840	36,950	47,170	46,510	54,690	MB	57%	47%	42%	62%	28%	-2%	19%
6,827	12,666	11,010	10,650	15,676	23,159	28,266	29,554	Index Views	86%	-13%	-3%	47%	48%	23%	5%
22,731	41,860	66,428	106,035	183,527	206,592	195,430	245,786	Down Loads	84%	59%	60%	73%	13%	-5%	26%
N/A	8,238	17,197	27,233	40,130	59,894	46,742	46,921	Domain Refer	N/A	109%	58%	47%	49%	-22%	3%
3,657	4,658	11,875	18,094	20,615	13,719	7,291	4,737	Search Refer	27%	155%	52%	14%	-33%	-47%	-34%

2005: Jan-June is estimated for site downloads.

StatLit Site Content Statistics (Source of 1st five lines is Front Page: View/Reports/Site-Summary)

#	#	#	#	#	#	#	#		Chg	Chg	Chg	Chg	Chg
2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012		2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
		2,800	2,984	2,951	3,284		4,216	Files: All			184	-33	333
		1,516	1,633	1,693	1,837		2,113	Images/Pictures: All			117	60	144
499	1,356	3,797	4,251	5,473	6,888		10,562	Hyper Links: All	857	2,441	454	1,222	1,415
		1,450	1,723	2,292	3,022		4,912	Hyper Links: External			273	569	730
		2,437	2,528	3,181	3,866		5,650	Hyper Links: Internal			91	653	685
	306	367	439	549	701		1,000	Files:/PDF**		61	72	110	152
	290	309	435	536	671		915	Images**		19	126	101	135
	18	43	86	77	91			Rows: StatLit2xxx.htm		25	43	-9	14
77	108	138	276	337	317	386	347	Size (K): StatLit2xxx.htm	31	30	138	61	-20

** Obtained from Windows Explorer/Properties of file folder. Cut in half b/c of vti_cnf.

Google Hits (Shown/Estimated) for "phrase" as of year-end

#	#	#	#	#	GOOGLE SEARCH PHRASE
2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
			791 / 7.03M	831 / 6.20M	Critical thinking
831 / 3.75M			571 / 2.36M	766 / 2.71M	Numeracy
			598 / 1.33M	814 / 2.08M	Financial Literacy

				...... / 413K	Health Literacy
795 / 338K		818 / 337K	453 / 152K	740 / 177K	Quantitative Reasoning
789 / 146K			428 / 99.5K	693 / 120K	Statistical Reasoning
769 / 101K			591 / 79.5K	809 / 75.0K	Innumeracy
>800 / 97.1K		784 / 117K	517 / 46.3K	722 / 48.3K	Quantitative Literacy
741 / 43.9K	739 / 57.0K	746 / 58.9K	444 / 24.3K	795 / 92.0K	Statistical Literacy
			493 / 3.79K	635 / 10.9K	statistically literate
			256 / 1.88K	413 / 3.51K	health numeracy
			224 / 1.65K	364 / 12.4K	Statistical Illiteracy

			577 / 5.34M	817 / 6.6M	spurious
				/ 94K	spurious argument
				756 / 28K	spurious association
			596 / 4.01M	748 / 5.4M	confounded
			592 / 2.74M	592 / 2.7M	confounding
			587 / 2.6M	587 / 2.6M	confound
			571 / 151K	571 / 150K	confounder
		762 / 32.6K	506 / 16.7K	891 / 77K	Simpson's Paradox
			820 / 155K	820 / 160K	induction "critical thinking"
			799 / 58.5K	799 / 59K	induction "critical thinking" statistics
			704 / 2.04M	704 / 2.04M	social construction
			623 / 188K	623 / 188K	"social construction" statistics

			576 / 254K	576 / 270K	Charles Murray
			469 / 75.4K	469 / 75.4K	Gerd Gigerenzer
			475 / 46.5K	475 / 46.5K	John Allen Paulos
		?? / 50.9K	564 / 32.0K	564 / 32.0K	Joel Best*
			328 / 13.2K	328 / 13.2K	Howard Wainer
			457 / 10.8K	457 / 10.8K	Gerald Bracey
			453 / 10.6K	453 / 10.6K	"Lynn Steen" or "Lynn Arthur Steen"
		/ 7.66K	546 / 7.66K	546 / 7.66K	"Donald Rubin"-Shelley
			359 / 2.06K	359 / 2.06K	"Bernie Madison" or "Bernard Madison"
>100 / 730			242 / 1,320	242 / 1,320	Richard Scheaffer
		>100 / 756	167 / 1,230	265 / 27K	Milo Schield

			204 / 9,460	204 / 9,460	StatLit
			128 / 927	128 / 927	StatLit.org

* 2008: "Joel Best" - billy

Rank	% of Visits	2010 VISITS	COUNTRY
1	78.6%	87,703	USA	Non-US
2	7.3%	8,126	China	34.0%
3	2.5%	2,818	United Kingdom	11.8%
4	2.2%	2,450	France	10.3%
5	2.0%	2,229	Australia	9.3%
6	1.7%	1,897	Canada	7.9%
7	1.0%	1,087	Singapore	4.5%
8	0.9%	981	Italy	4.1%
9	0.8%	937	Japan	3.9%
10	0.6%	644	Hong Kong	2.7%
11	0.6%	641	South Africa	2.7%
12	0.5%	600	India	2.5%
13	0.5%	544	Germany	2.3%
14	0.4%	422	Netherlands	1.8%
15	0.3%	355	New Zealand	1.5%
16	0.1%	164	Ukraine	0.7%
	111,598		ALL	23,895

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