Statistical Literacy 2023: Critical Thinking about Everyday Statistics

1 The story Behind the Statistics 
2 Comparisons and CARE Solutions 
3 Understanding Measurements 
4 Describing Ratios: Percent and Percentage 
5 Describing Ratios: Rate and Chance Grammar 
6 Comparing Ratios 
7 Interpreting Confusing Ratios 
8 Randomness 
9 Conclusion 
10 Social Statistics: Tables, Graphs and Stories 
11 Guide for Teachers 
12 Key Word List by Chapter 
13 List of Figures 
14 List of Tables 
15 List of Graphs and Maps 
16 List of Stories 
17 List of Charts and Images 
18 List of Equations and Diagrams 
19 Glossary 
20 Index 
21 Review of Named Ratios

"I am convinced that the standard first course in statistics, which focuses on getting to significance testing and confidence intervals, isn't an appropriate aim for a lot of students. I think Schield's approach to statistical literacy is much closer to what is needed by journalists, by policy makers, by those in business, commerce or management and by most people in everyday life."
 - Peter Holmes, Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education

"Today's students face an ongoing information revolution where each aspect of daily life is increasingly saturated with quantitative data - from health trackers, to dating apps, to recommendation algorithms for streaming platforms. Schield's Statistical Literacy fills a critical niche, teaching students about the process by which data become information, and about how a lack of care in that process can just as easily create disinformation."
 - Fletcher G.W. Christensen, PhD, Asst. Professor of Statistics at the University of New Mexico

"A small educational movement advocating statistical literacy has emerged. Professor Milo Schield, Director of the W. M. Keck Foundation Statistical Literacy Project at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, is the movement's leading voice."
- Dr. Joel Best, author of More Damned Lies and Statistics