Slide 24
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What is missing in the current statistics
curriculum?
Wild and Pfannhuch (1999) complained that:
“Large parts of the investigative process, such as problem analysis and
measurement, have been largely abandoned by statisticians and
statistics educators to the realm of the particular, perhaps to be
developed separately within other disciplines.”
They add that “[t]he arid, context-free landscape on which so many
examples used in statistics teaching are built ensures that large
numbers of students never even see, let alone engage in, statistical
thinking.”