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Topic-Contributed Panel Session

What Educated Citizens Should Know About Statistics and Probability, Revisited

Sun, Aug 3, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM Room CC-207B Music City Center
Section on Statistics and Data Science Education co: Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciencesco: No Additional Sponsor Applied

About this session

In 2003, Jessica Utts wrote the article, What Educated Citizens Should Know About Statistics and Probability where she claimed that introductory statistics courses had not kept up with the many changes occurring throughout our world. She proposed seven ideas that every student should know. How has the statistics and data science education community been impacted by these suggestions? Are these seven ideas still important? What new ideas need to be added as the world continues to change? In this session we will have representatives from industry, government and academia discuss their perspectives.

6 Panelists

University of California
California Polytechnic State University
St. Cloud State University
Stanford University
Grinnell College
American Statistical Association