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Each year's edition contains selected news and pictures involving
books, grants, conferences and articles related to statistical literacy,
quantitative literacy, numeracy, quantitative reasoning, statistical
and reasoning.
These pages and a highlight include:
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StatLit
2007: Rossman notes that the GAISE goals cannot be fully achieved in
a traditional methods course.
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StatLit
2006: ASA GAISE concludes "Introductory courses should ...emphasize
statistical literacy..."
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StatLit
2005: Bernie Madison develops News Math: a Q/L course that uses the
news.
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StatLit
2004: Howard Wainer features a new graphical technique that
illustrates confounding.
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StatLit 2003:
Joel Best addresses the ASA JSM on the social construction of
statistics.
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