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The 3 Cs for Collaborative Statistics: Tiers of Effective Communication (304237)

Keywords: Effective Communication, Collaboration, teaching, mentoring

The ability of statisticians to collaborate well and communicate effectively are skills much needed across disciplines. The combination of critical thinking and interpersonal skills that appropriately combines interdisciplinary content areas and statistical knowledge is challenging to teach. We propose the “3 C’s” framework for teaching how to approach, implement, and present on research questions using real-world data. The 3 C’s approach encourages learners to group their statistical methodology into three tiers for their collaborative research projects: comprehensive, collaborator, and circulation. The comprehensive tier is for the statistical team; it includes all aspects of addressing the question including exploratory statistics, quality control and assumption checks, understanding variables in connection to the content area, etc. The collaborator tier includes the elements that are important for conversation with collaborators. The circulation tier streamlines the narrative for dissemination. The 3 C’s enforce critical thinking, communication skills, and translation of statistical conclusions to content area conclusions during every step of the collaboration process.