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126 registered: Our biggest meeting!
Teaching a 'Calling Bullshit' Course
One of the most important skills that students can learn is the ability to spot and refute rot, especially the kind wrapped in data, statistics and fancy algorithms. Over the last several years, we have been teaching students from STEM and non-STEM backgrounds to question numbers in the same way they question clickbait news and propaganda. Our philosophy is to focus less on the black box algorithm or procedure and instead focus on the data entering and exiting the black box. That puts an emphasis on topics such as selection bias, correlation and causation.
In this talk, we will present what we have learned over the past several years teaching 'Calling Bullshit'. Our hope is to make this content accessible to instructors wanting to integrate this kind of data reasoning approach into their own classroom. We will provide example modules from our class, discuss testing and evaluation, and reflect on the challenges of taking this course online during the pandemic.
QL is everywhere:
“Butter rolls live at the center of a Venn diagram of frugality, simplicity, and deliciousness.
It’s a recipe born out of necessity, a crafty way to use leftover biscuit scraps...”.
Numeracy, the NNN's premier publication, has been accepted
for indexing in the Scopus Journal of Metrics. Scopus is the largest
abstract and citations database of peer-reviewed literature.
Their Cite-Score is an open-access tool for documenting
the scholarly impact of journals and their publications.
Numeracy is the leading open-access, peer-reviewed journalLuke Tunstall, NNN VP, and his co-author won the C. Oswald George
2019 prize for the best article in the academic journal:Teaching Statistics.
Some say 2019 is the end of this decade; others say 2020.
Do both sides have reasons? If so, what are they?
Should NNN take a stand on this? (Milo, 12/31/2019)
Milo Schield Luke Tunstall Marc Isaacson
President Vice President Sec/Treasurer
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Six Workshops; 31 Papers: Schedule Abstracts
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NNN Numeracy Workshop
Palomar Community College
San Marcos, CA
Sept 20-21, 2019
Invitation with map; Workshop details
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Read NNN's Journal: Numeracy
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Mission: To See "About the NNN"
With your support we can improve the level of numeracy in academia, schools and the world at large.
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Numeracy News2019/09/30. Statistical Literacy: A Study in Confounding is authored by NNN VP, Milo Schield.
2018/06/20. Syntax vs. Semantics: Quote: "Fortunately, only one in ten Americans have died from being struck by lightning in the three decades between 1981 and 2010" Author intended to say "Fortunately, only one in ten Americans being struck by lightning in the three decades between 1981 and 2010 have died" Small changes in syntax can create big changes in semantics. Source: https://gizmodo.com/5936361/what-happens-when-you-get-struck-by-lightning [Analysis by Milo Schield]
2018/05/01 Six Habits of Highly Numerate People by Doug Birdie. Pdf
2018/04/08 Pamela Burdman announces Just Equations. The goal: "re-conceptualizing the role of math in ensuring equal educational opportunities for students. Just Equations is an independent resource on the role of mathematics in education equity, working across education systems and advancing evidence-based strategies to ensure math policies give all students the quantitative foundation they need to succeed in college and beyond."
2018/03/05 Data Literacy: NNN officers, Marc Isaacson and Milo Schield, present a workshop on Data Literacy at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2018 in Grapevine, TX. Over 50 IT executives attend. The Gartner keynote address notes that Data Literacy is now the biggest problem in dealing with big data. Quant-Fluent website
Gartner ($4.8 B revenue) is the world's leading research and advisory company and a member of the S&P 500. Gartner sponsors high-end conferences for those working in Information Technology.
https://thinkingquantitatively.wordpress.com/
Quantitative Reasoning & Writing: Bernie Madison