JSM panel on statistical literacy

I'll be presenting a talk on Monday afternoon at the Statistical Literary 2011 section at the Joint Statistical Meeting, organized by Milo Schield. The full program is here.

The abstract of my talk is:

Recently, pop-stats books have captured the public's favor, overcoming the negative perception of the subject of statistics. The best known examples include the Malcolm Gladwell series; the Freakonomics franchise; Ian Ayres's Super Crunchers; and the speaker's Numbers Rule Your World. Readers find these books highly accessible as each author finds a way to balance readability and rigor. What can educators learn from this publishing phenomenon? What is the role of pop-stats books in statistics courses? (Partly based on joint work with Andrew Gelman)

Comments

[Mike Liveright]

p.s. I sent this to: jsm@amstat.org

I, and I assume others, will not be at your session tomorrow. I wonder if you could put a link and ordering instructions as to how to get the material (or nor). I would like to be able to consider purchasing a download of the Audio or Video of the talks as well as PDF's of the papers ASAP if they were available, in a timely manor, and if the prices were reasonable.

Thanks.

[Kaiser]

Mike: I'll post my slides here but be warned that my presentation style is such that I don't put a lot of text on my slides so you have to piece together the story yourself.