tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2301478719841704679.post1611888601741235083..comments2023-05-11T06:32:49.574-04:00Comments on A Rogue's World : life, love and the tech that glues it together: The Second LiteracyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17825837451589662852noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2301478719841704679.post-89888477515855498102008-12-26T21:16:00.000-05:002008-12-26T21:16:00.000-05:00@dan I so completely agree with you on the critica...@dan I so completely agree with you on the critical thinking skills. I think if you have some basic statistics understanding and critical thinking skills you can rationally decide how/when to trust other people's interpretations. Without those skills you are an illiterate at the mercy of random strangers to interpret the data of the world.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17825837451589662852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2301478719841704679.post-16794391941477950832008-12-26T21:07:00.000-05:002008-12-26T21:07:00.000-05:00@Dr. Robert C. Worstell The thing I think many pe...@Dr. Robert C. Worstell The thing I think many people miss is that it does not take an undergrad stats course to be able to understand and interpret statistics. I would argue that we should be teaching the basics of statistics at the same time that we teach the basics of reading.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17825837451589662852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2301478719841704679.post-59453099947169378682008-12-23T15:09:00.000-05:002008-12-23T15:09:00.000-05:00I don't think it's an either-or situation. Some b...I don't think it's an either-or situation. Some basic understanding of statistics should be made available to everyone, but if everyone took all the time necessary to get something out of the raw data, society could get bogged down via information overload. Onee reason I've decided to go back to school to go into research is that I'd grown tired of hearing other people's conclusions in a particular field and want to learn enough to come to my own conclusions with direct exposure to data. There are plenty of other areas in which I'm content to hear conclusions based on other interpretations of statistical information, but, with critical thinking skills, that doesn't mean I swallow everything I'm told without question. The key is what I just mentioned: improving critical thinking skills and peoples' ability to question the information they are given.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2301478719841704679.post-38523413111578113732008-12-21T15:08:00.000-05:002008-12-21T15:08:00.000-05:00On the other hand, some schools are using video ga...On the other hand, some schools are using video games to teach basic math skills. <BR/><BR/>While emoticons may start showing up in Academic papers, I hardly think that lack of hardpaper books will keep people from learning to read from our new Electronic Age.<BR/><BR/>Certainly, they'll learn to search before the attempt undergraduate stats courses, though...robertworstellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16109419616754661835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2301478719841704679.post-40033340031161456862008-12-20T18:57:00.000-05:002008-12-20T18:57:00.000-05:00Great article! I remember taking stats in college ...Great article! I remember taking stats in college and having the professor show us how we could use stats to correlate the reproduction of frogs in NC with the amount of rainfall in WA. It is so easy to skew numbers! That being said, I see a population of people who are complacent to let someone else interpret for them, tell them what to do, and whine because they are not happy with the outcome - in all aspects of life. In my corner of the world I see this with regard to health and wellness, but it is prevalent across the board. So Orwellian, and so sad.Dee Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211968325719140271noreply@blogger.com