I have assembled a list of statistical and numerical illiteracy examples in the media, as they appeared in Chance News online (a statistics wiki) between 2005 and 2014. See "Collected Forsooths at https://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Collected_Forsooths. I would appreciate feedback about its usefulness in the classroom.
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2Welcome to the site! There are two somewhat related questions: Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of and Examples of Innumeracy; the latter mentions your resource in an answer – quid Feb 21 '15 at 17:51
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2Don't you mean "innumeracy" rather than "illiteracy"? – Rory Daulton Feb 21 '15 at 17:52
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Great site and many thanks for these other links. Please, if anyone else has more, post them. I am also looking for the third in the trilogy... illiterate, innumerate and aspatial – NaN Feb 22 '15 at 02:18
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Sorry about the "illiteracy" term - I know better but am always in too much of a hurry! Besides Paulos, see MacNeal's Mathsemantics (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/938114.Mathsemantics); this is 2nd ed. of book I read, and used in college classes, many years ago. – Margaret Cibes Feb 27 '15 at 19:22