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StatLit.org  Site: Mission, Administration and Site Statistics

The primary goal of this site is to present statistical literacy as an interdisciplinary activity.
As such it has overlaps with quantitative reasoning, quantitative literacy, numeracy and statistical reasoning.
This site features books, papers and activities related to statistical literacy -- taken broadly from a variety of disciplines.
Those in one discipline may be unaware of what those in other disciplines are doing.
This site tries to bridge those disciplinary boundaries and provide a single source for related materials.

A secondary goal is to present statistical literacy as the study of statistics in everyday arguments.  See Schield (2000b) and Schield (2004c).
This features, but is not limited to, the activities of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project at Augsburg College.
The W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy Project features a statistical literacy that focuses on

Comments are welcomed.  
Suggestions on materials for this site are provided by correspondents world-wide.
Correspondents include members of the ASA, IASE, RSS, MAA, NNN and IASSIST.

The site is independent of any organization.
The papers listed make assertions; this site focuses primarily on providing access to the papers. 
Listing an author's paper or showing their picture does not imply the author's review or approval.
Listing a conference does not imply review or approval by the organization sponsoring the conference. 

On the StatLit2008 web page, some links to Amazon.com carried a reference to this site.
This site receives a 4% or 6% commission on purchases made by referrals from that page.
This commission is the only revenue generated by this site and is used for site maintenance.

Milo Schield is the editor, webmaster and owner of this site.    You can contact him at Schield@Augsburg.edu
Milo is the Director of the W. M. Keck Statistical Literacy project and the Vice President of the National Numeracy Network.
He is a past-President of the Twin Cities chapter of the American Statistical Association.
He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and the US Representative of the International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP).


StatLit.org: Site Statistics

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Alexa Ranking  http://www.alexa.com

2013-04-18:  www.Statlit.org is ranked #7,256,438 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. The site has been online for at least eleven years, and the site is located in the US. Alexa Traffic Global Rank 7,256,438;  Global Reputation: 78 
* Global Traffic Rank: A rough estimate of statlit.org's popularity.  The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to statlit.org and pageviews on statlit.org over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.
* Global Reputation: Sites linking.  In A measure of statlit.org's reputation.  The number of links to statlit.org from sites visited by users in the Alexa traffic panel. Links that were not seen by users in the Alexa traffic panel are not counted. Multiple links from the same site are only counted once.

2013-04-19: www.afshinashofteh.com.  Alexa Traffic Rank: 28,053,754.  Sites Linking In: 4

2013-04-19: www.makingfaircomparisons.us/  Alexa Traffic Rank: 22,851,161.  Sites Linking In: 6

2013-04-18:  Stats.org.uk is ranked #4,511,442 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings.  Reputation 36.

2013-04-19:  Stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase has a three-month global Alexa traffic rank of 1,244,230. Roughly 23% of the site's visitors are in the US, where it has attained a traffic rank of 664,870. Reputation: No data. International Association for Statistical Education (IASE). 

2013-04-19: Understandinguncertainty.org's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 752,471.  394 Sites Linking In.

2013-04-18: www.stats.org.   Alexa Traffic Rank: 987,619; Traffic Rank in US: 467,655.  Sites Linking In: 1,144

2013-04-18: andrewgelman.com.  Alexa Traffic Rank: 290,076  United States Traffic Rank: 147,648 .   Sites Linking In: 884

2013-04-19: Badscience.net's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 212,053; Reputation: 3,943.  Ben Goldacre's column from The Guardian in weblog format. Covers media misrepresentations of science, with a particular focus on medicine. Includes a forum.

2013-04-19: www.amstat.org. Alexa Traffic Rank: 198,441. Sites Linking In: 2,788.

StatLit.org Site Visits (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
1 2,798 3,108 8,320 6,932 8,585 14,148 15,379 13,722 14,840 19,038 25,208 25,154 23,277 22,985
2 2,976 2,934 6,220 7,981 9,324 13,161 14,362 14,607 14,622 17,970 23,961 25,383 20,364 26,145
3 3,188 5,897 6,959 7,781 9,574 14,792 15,054 15,240 18,160 20,397 27,250 26,417 24,556 29,112
4 3,057 5,109 7,072 10,126 9,342 14,361 15,423 14,818 16,434 21,611 25,974 23,894 26,009 28,081
5 3,169 5,426 7,386 10,140 8,885 14,981 14,884 15,169 16,098 21,416 24,691 24,949 24,519 28,027
6 2,857 5,153 9,621 8,765 9,161 14,071 12,418 13,460 17,128 21,027 24,796 23,563 23,008 26,068
7 3,206 4,574 8,623 8,385 9,603 13,540 12,064 14,405 16,916 24,553 24,906 22,195 21,609 26,569
8 2,878 3,887 6,522 8,020 12,258 14,661 13,003 14,087 16,498 18,719 27,113 22,939 22,479 27,128
9 2,751 4,458 5,602 8,252 13,275 15,881 14,716 15,723 17,992 21,422 25,497 20,314 24,804 29,780
10 3,220 5,274 5,663 9,246 14,697 15,885 14,268 17,793 18,314 27,850 24,672 23,218 24,635 35,691
11 3,576 5,775 5,981 8,830 13,266 15,591 14,763 17,645 18,224 24,104 23,237 20,109 25,192 33,160
12 4,105 7,803 7,200 8,502 14,020 13,569 13,419 14,488 19,702 24,417 26,332 21,399 24,134 30,259
ALL 37,781 59,398 85,169 102,960 131,990 174,641 169,753 168,207 204,928 262,524 303,637 279,534 284,586 343,005

Omit bogus hits for site pictures.  Includes student-generated visits.     

 

 

StatLit.org Downloads (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

2014

2015 2016 2017 2018
1 1,500 2,579 4,893 5,755 11,850 22,264 19,279 17,245 20,859 21,910 29,649 40,039 36,422 28,192
2 1,500 2,346 3,707 7,092 12,115 19,094 16,819 19,653 20,431 24,946 31,729 68,503 35,678 34,374
3 1,500 4,036 4,248 6,615 11,131 17,961 16,181 24,325 20,840 26,701 37,118 49,348 33,990 40,452
4 1,500 3,146 4,730 8,206 9,617 20,369 16,349 22,425 20,443 31,919 31,517 42,421 31,517 37,173
5 1,500 3,730 5,070 9,338 9,850 19,528 18,100 21,916 26,244 32,807 34,063 45,936 33,573 37,001
6 1,500 3,464 6,241 8,047 14,263 14,486 13,188 17,828 18,629 30,444 36,788 31,703 31,785 37,226
7 1,795 3,459 6,543 9,426 11,495 14,804 13,071 17,537 23,744 36,507 32,168 31,478 26,346 36,933
8 2,011 3,704 5,550 9,232 14,829 16,421 17,581 20,288 22,494 38,982 42,201 30,831 32,186 40,879
9 2,034 3,512 5,398 8,689 22,387 16,605 18,608 21,369 22,022 44,706 46,655 33,807 31,260 39,795
10 2,496 3,581 6,023 11,280 25,761 15,868 16,489 21,246 22,024 28,710 40,351 36,129 33,253 54,642
11 2,516 3,348 7,270 11,958 19,876 16,192 14,987 22,985 23,724 28,242 32,515 32,271 34,242 39,276
12 2,879 4,955 6,755 10,397 20,353 13,360 14,778 18,969 23,665

24,417

40,716 31,667 28,920 37,805
ALL 22,731 41,860 66,428 106,035 183,527 206,592 195,430 245,786 265,119 367,513 435,470 473,593 389,172 461,808

* 2005: Jan-June are estimated.

 

 

StatLit.org Page Views (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

2014

2015 2016 2017 2018
1 2,000 1,829 4,504 4,478 5,902 8,602 9,367 10,794 11,346 13,424 15,444 12,883 14,910 13,024
2 2,000 1,790 3,410 4,840 6,169 8,388 9,351 10,951 11,856 12,315 14,633 13,553 11,217 14,168
3 2,000 3,151 3,932 5,042 5,785 8,590 10,171 11,165 13,600 12,931 18,385 12,575 16,864 20,131
4 2,000 2,546 3,510 5,086 5,202 8,452 10,288 11,435 13,438 12,861 16,360 12,643 16,360 15,568
5 2,000 3,326 4,189 6,092 5,738 8,950 10,270 12,173 12,964 13,401 15,856 12,716 18,162 14,458
6 2,000 3,390 4.319 5,853 5,834 7,089 8,755 10.543 12,753 14,197 14,762 12,896 16,379 13,695
7 2,256 2,447 3,778 5.243 5,851 7,315 9,658 9,487 14,525 15,177 15,819 14,118 14,566 14,848
8 3,129 2,584 3,388 5,077 6,030 9,093 10,046 9,486 12,387 13,477 16,737 14,010 15,019 15,743
9 2,695 2,242 2,936 4,756 6,934 11,768 12,710 9,678 12,753 13,925 13,301 13,422 17,187 13,983
10 3,156 2,679 3,158 5,481 8,829 8,793 11,020 10,485 12,397 17,449 11,811 15,368 14,503 16,560
11 3,198 3,267 4,763 5,634 7,757 8,646 10,806 11,440 11,762 15,710 13,635 14,352 13,038 17,191
12 3,302 4,388 4,722 6,343 8,008 9,095 10,417 10,465 12,050

15,361

14,550 16,872 13,611 15,641
ALL 29,763 33,639 46,610 63,952 78.099 104,781 122,859 129,930 151,831 170,228 181,293 165,408 181,866 185,010

* 2005: Jan-June are estimated.     2014 Statistics for Page Views were mistakenly entered using Site Visits.  Corrected on 9/15/2016.

 

 

StatLit.org INDEX Views (Bold is new high or high for that year)

Month 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

2014

2015 2016 2017 2018
1           1,613 1,680 2,459 3,070 3,977 6,887 4,383 6,011 5,929
2           1,498 1,756 2,787 3,416 3,532 6,559 4,273 5,973 5,448
3           1,540 2,255 2,367 4,610 3,571 8,746 4,378 6,327 7,073
4           1,569 2,847 2,540 3,871 3,612 7,481 4,025 7,481 5,036
5           1,962 2,224 2,670 4,139 4,096 5,749 4,291 7,219 5,613
6           1,431 2,177 2,679 4,656 3,530 6,968 4,514 6,687 5,121
7           1,348 2,214 2,100 4,575 3,281 6,974 5,166 6,730 6,437
8           2,731 2,192 2,185 3,993 3,536 6,386 5,422 6,824 8,339
9           3,750 3,346 2,134 3,787 3,643 4,037 5,587 6,773 5,646
10           2,007 2,258 2,286 4,151 4,562 4,043 5,981 5,764 6,465
11           2,080 2,749 2,527 3,815 6,200 4,489 5,357 5,641 6,185
12           1,630 2,568 2,820 3,591

6,936

5,190 5,495 5,502 5,610
ALL 4,484 12,666 11,010 10,650 15,676 23,159 28,266 29,554 47,674 50,476 73,509 58,872 76,932 72,902

* 2005: Jan-June are estimated.

 

 

StatLit Site Hit Count (FrontPage Hit Counter):  1,021 (11/01 - 10/02),  1,031 (10/02 - 10/03),  1,567 (11/03 - 10/04).    

206 hits 11/09/04 (after site xfer before update).   642 hits 11/01-11/31/04.  906 hits 11/01-12/31/04   1190 hits 11/01-2/06/05

 

ANNUAL WEB STATISTICS : www.STATLIT.org (WEB Statistics generated by LiveStats after 6/2005)

# # # #           %Chg %Chg %Ch %Ch %Ch %Ch %Ch
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012   2006 2007  2008  2009 2010 2011 2012
37,781 59,398 85,169 102,960 131,990 174,641 169,753 168,207 Visits 57% 43% 21% 28% 32% -10% -1%
29,736 64,964 73,720 69,468 82,972 104,781 122,859 129,930 Page Views 118% 13% -6% 19% 26% 11% -6%
527,416 654,722 459,479 898,056 1,242,994 1,618,394 1,613,195 1,498,468 Hits 24% -30% 95% 38% 30% -1% -7%
6,949 10,889 16,060 22,840 36,950 47,170 46,510 54,690 MB 57% 47% 42% 62% 28% -2% 19%
6,827 12,666 11,010 10,650 15,676 23,159 28,266 29,554 Index Views 86% -13% -3% 47% 48% 23% 5%
22,731 41,860 66,428 106,035 183,527 206,592 195,430 245,786 Down Loads 84% 59% 60% 73% 13% -5% 26%
N/A 8,238 17,197 27,233 40,130 59,894 46,742 46,921 Domain Refer N/A 109% 58% 47% 49% -22% 3%
3,657 4,658 11,875 18,094 20,615 13,719 7,291 4,737 Search Refer 27% 155% 52% 14% -33% -47% -34%

2005: Jan-June is estimated for site downloads.

 

StatLit Site Content Statistics (Source of 1st five lines is Front Page: View/Reports/Site-Summary)

# # # # # # # #   Chg Chg Chg Chg Chg
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012   2006 2007  2008  2009 2010
    2,800 2,984 2,951 3,284   4,216 Files: All     184 -33 333
    1,516 1,633 1,693 1,837   2,113 Images/Pictures: All     117 60 144
499 1,356 3,797 4,251 5,473 6,888   10,562 Hyper Links: All 

 857

2,441 454 1,222 1,415
    1,450 1,723 2,292 3,022   4,912 Hyper Links: External     273 569 730
    2,437 2,528 3,181 3,866   5,650 Hyper Links: Internal     91 653 685
  306 367 439 549 701   1,000 Files:/PDF**   61 72 110 152
  290 309 435 536 671   915 Images**   19 126 101 135
  18 43 86 77 91     Rows: StatLit2xxx.htm   25 43 -9 14
77 108 138 276 337 317 386 347 Size (K): StatLit2xxx.htm

 31

30 138 61 -20

** Obtained from Windows Explorer/Properties of file folder. Cut in half b/c of vti_cnf.

 

 

 

 

Google Hits (Shown/Estimated) for "phrase" as of year-end

# # # # # GOOGLE SEARCH PHRASE
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
    791 / 7.03M 831 / 6.20M Critical thinking
831 / 3.75M     571 / 2.36M 766 / 2.71M Numeracy
    598 / 1.33M 814 / 2.08M Financial Literacy
         
      ...... / 413K Health Literacy
795 / 338K   818 / 337K 453 / 152K 740 / 177K Quantitative Reasoning
789 / 146K     428 / 99.5K 693 / 120K Statistical Reasoning
769 / 101K     591 / 79.5K 809 / 75.0K Innumeracy
>800 / 97.1K   784 / 117K 517 / 46.3K 722 / 48.3K Quantitative Literacy
741 / 43.9K 739 / 57.0K 746 / 58.9K 444 / 24.3K 795 / 92.0K Statistical Literacy
    493 / 3.79K 635 / 10.9K statistically literate
    256 / 1.88K 413 / 3.51K health numeracy
    224 / 1.65K 364 / 12.4K Statistical Illiteracy
         
    577 / 5.34M 817 / 6.6M spurious
      / 94K spurious argument
      756 / 28K spurious association
    596 / 4.01M 748 / 5.4M confounded
    592 / 2.74M 592 / 2.7M confounding
    587 / 2.6M 587 / 2.6M confound
    571 / 151K 571 / 150K confounder
  762 / 32.6K 506 / 16.7K 891 / 77K Simpson's Paradox
    820 / 155K 820 / 160K induction "critical thinking"
    799 / 58.5K 799 / 59K induction "critical thinking" statistics
    704 / 2.04M 704 / 2.04M social construction
    623 / 188K 623 / 188K "social construction" statistics
         
    576 / 254K 576 / 270K Charles Murray
    469 / 75.4K 469 / 75.4K Gerd Gigerenzer
    475 / 46.5K 475 / 46.5K John Allen Paulos
  ?? / 50.9K 564 / 32.0K 564 / 32.0K Joel Best*
    328 / 13.2K 328 / 13.2K Howard Wainer
    457 / 10.8K 457 / 10.8K Gerald Bracey
    453 / 10.6K 453 / 10.6K "Lynn Steen" or "Lynn Arthur Steen"
  / 7.66K 546 / 7.66K 546 / 7.66K "Donald Rubin"-Shelley
    359 / 2.06K 359 / 2.06K "Bernie Madison" or "Bernard Madison"
>100 / 730     242 / 1,320 242 / 1,320 Richard Scheaffer
  >100 / 756 167 / 1,230 265 / 27K Milo Schield
         
    204 / 9,460 204 / 9,460 StatLit
    128 / 927 128 / 927 StatLit.org

* 2008: "Joel Best" - billy

 

Rank

% of Visits

2010
VISITS

COUNTRY

1

78.6%

87,703

USA

Non-US

2

7.3%

8,126

China

34.0%

3

2.5%

2,818

United Kingdom

11.8%

4

2.2%

2,450

France

10.3%

5

2.0%

2,229

Australia

9.3%

6

1.7%

1,897

Canada

7.9%

7

1.0%

1,087

Singapore

4.5%

8

0.9%

981

Italy

4.1%

9

0.8%

937

Japan

3.9%

10

0.6%

644

Hong Kong

2.7%

11

0.6%

641

South Africa

2.7%

12

0.5%

600

India

2.5%

13

0.5%

544

Germany

2.3%

14

0.4%

422

Netherlands

1.8%

15

0.3%

355

New Zealand

1.5%

16

0.1%

164

Ukraine

0.7%

 

111,598

 

ALL

23,895

 

 

 

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