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Activity Number: 69
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 2, 2009 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #304312
Title: Telling the Story to Learn the Statistics
Author(s): A. John Bailer*+ and Richard Campbell
Companies: Miami University and Miami University
Address: Department of Statistics, Oxford, OH, 45056,
Keywords: Statistical Literacy ; Journalism ; Narrative
Abstract:

A statistician and a journalist, in a team effort, developed a course to promote quantitative literacy at Miami University. The implementation of one of these projects is summarized. Course features included students preparing to be critical consumers of quantitative information, translating scientific journal articles for broad audience, and partnering with local news outlets, both print and radio, to produce stories for these media. This course had greater structure earlier introduce basic ideas of journalism (e.g. information vs. story forms) and statistical ideas (e.g. data summaries). Beyond the stories produced by the students, major assignments included a portfolio of examples of media blunders in representing numerical information (along with suggestions to improve these methods) and good examples.

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