The seven deadly sins of statistical misinterpretation, and how to avoid them
Article, Stimulus, The Conversation
Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns.
2 April 2017 Edit: 2 April 2017
- Topics:
- Data, Data Analysis, Data Representation, Misleading Graphs
- Content Type:
- Article, Stimulus, The Conversation
- Australian Curriculum / Essential Mathematics
- Unit 2 Topic 1 Representing and comparing data, Summarising and interpreting data, ACMEM056 investigate real-world examples from the media illustrating inappropriate uses, or misuses,
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- MA4-19SP Data Collection and Representation
- NSW Curriculum New
- Statistics and probability, Data classification, visualisation and analysis, MA4-DAT-C-01 Data classification and visualisation
- NSW Mathematics Standard Stage 6 Syllabus
- Statistical Analysis, MS-S1 Data Analysis, MS-S1.2 Summary statistics
Submit a correction to this link
Comments
How have you used this link in your classroom? Share your teaching ideas or leave a review about this link.
Sign in to leave a comment.
There are no comments for this link.