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Challenges in Introductory Statistics

  • The future of statistics will depend even more than today on a wide audience of people whose primary area of knowledge is not statistics.
  • In many cases, "Introductory Statistics" means "Introduction to Data Management, Data Analysis and Computer Programming for Beginners".
  • Almost every second spent on the teaching of p-values might be more usefully spent teaching open access, replication and reproducibility.

Background assumptions:

  1. Quantification and visualization are main drivers for attention to statistical methods in areas like advocacy, social science and journalism, where most practitioners of statistics have no claim towards statistician status. Also, Hilary Mason's first point.
  2. For many students taking an "intro. to stats" course, the learning objectives cover a much larger spectrum of skills required for applied empirical research and its derivatives, like social metrics and survey reporting. Also, Joe Blitzstein's first point.
  3. This point aims principally at generalizing Hadley Wickham's first point.
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briatte commented Nov 22, 2013

See also this presentation by Pierre Mercklé and Claire Zalc.

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