Discuss and Reflect
- Why am I in this unit?
- Who uses statistics to persuade? How? Ethically?
- What does significant mean?
- Why do particular learning tools or approaches work or not work for you?
Complementary Content
- [QR] The median isn't the message, CancerGuide.org (2002)
- [QR] Statistics, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics on Wikipedia
- [QR] What's in a Surname? National Geographic Magazine Blog Central (2011) Jan 11
- [B] Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (2005), using logic and quantitative methods to address research questions
- [B] Statistics as Principled Argument (1995), presenting statistics correctly and effectively
- [B] Being Digital (1995), digital technologies and their possible future
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Definitions and examples of Statistical Language
- Background information on Understanding Statistics
Activities
| Discuss and Critique - [V] Changing Education Paradigms, TedTalks (2010) October (12 min) - assessment, projects and teams - unit outline - inferential and descriptive statistics - opposing approaches to analysis - Week 2 learning objectives |
- Explain readings and Wikipedia - Emphasise story telling and visualisation - Emphasise plagiarism - Elect class rep - Watch The lady with a data visualisation, OpenLearn at the Open University (3.5 min) |
