Jackie Carter|James Nicholson
Teaching statistical literacy by getting students to use real world data: 40 years worth of experience in 40 minutes
Durham University|University of Manchester
data deluge past twenty years resulted explosion volumes available data access data increasingly easy technology advances resulted increasingly sophisticated ways represent analyse data citizens confronted statistics numbers multitude ways imperative improving statistical literacy strong want wellinformed dataliterate population social sciences embracing quantitative methods demand grows private public sectors evidenceinformed policy greater sophistication approaching difficult measure constructs global sustainability emerging sustainable development goals set un1 september 2015 data requirements associated may accelerate trends paper reflect authors experiences working real data context schools university social science courses past twenty years consider could inform discussions developing statistical education