14:30 - 15:30
Invited Paper Session
Room: Hegelsaal I
Chair:
Maria João Valente Rosa
Organiser/s:
Maria João Valente Rosa
In the 21st century society, citizens need skills to understand and analyse statistics, including appropriate skills for interpreting reality, for decision making based on empirical evidence and for developing well-founded opinions. To achieve this, a stronger engagement of statisticians with the users in relation to data access, communication and training, is required. This is especially relevant for the new potential users of all ages and stages of life, with particular emphasis on fostering statistical literacy in schools.

Official statistics play a vital role on our world’s understanding. But they also need to be understandable for everyone. So, it is important to discuss what should be the further skills’ issues which will help to engage everyone with reliable statistics. The panel also offers the possibility of sharing examples of best practices in order to increase the culture of statistics as a public good.
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Preparing students for a world full of data
Roger PorKess
The Royal Society, London

This presentation starts with two reports which Roger Porkess wrote for the Royal Statistical Society: The Future of Statistics in our Schools and Colleges (2012) and A world full of Data (2013). These show a considerable deficit in the statistical skills provided to young people in England, both in terms of the numbers of students involved and of the relevance to other subjects of such statistics as they are taught.

Abstract
Presentation
Reference:
Th-IPS03-02
Session:
Basic skills to engage everyone with reliable statistics
Presenter/s:
Roger PorKess
Presentation type:
Oral presentation
Room:
Hegelsaal I
Chair:
Maria João Valente Rosa
Date:
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Time:
14:30 - 15:30
Session times:
14:30 - 15:30
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