alt Hacker NewsExactly. 38% is way too high. Are we sure about that? Statistics is not some required learning in school. Even those who learned (me for example) cannot confidently claim what it actually means. I would say most of the people don't have a clue what statistics mean
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bruce511 • today at 6:57 AM
If you changed "most" to "all" you'd be well inside the margin or error.
There's a reason actuaries get paid the big bucks.
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Here in Norway, statistics has been introduced in 9th and 10th grade (15 and 16 year olds). Here[1] is what a 9th grader is supposed to know at the end of the school year. Some key points translated to English:
- Interpret and critically evaluate statistical representations from the media and the local community.
- Calculate measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion in custom and real datasets, and use the results to describe the data.
- Calculate and evaluate probability in statistics and games.
This came after my time, and our PIRSA score aren't the best so perhaps practice is lacking.
[1]: https://www.udir.no/lk20/mat01-06/kompetansemaal-og-vurderin...