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      Statistical awareness promoting a data culture

       
      Statistical Journal of the IAOS
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          Good statistics can do a lot of good: They help to base decisions on factual arguments, they can simplify conflict resolution. This requires an understanding of the opportunities and risks, the strengths and limitations of statistical facts. Overestimation leads to exaggerated expectations and disappointments, underestimation to missed opportunities, risks. Even worse is the trouble if facts are influenced or manipulated with political intentions or if even the impression of arbitrariness is created with so-called ‘alternative facts’. The very bad excesses of political misuse of statistics are carried out with intent and not negligently. Nevertheless, it can be argued that the virus of false and manipulated information flourishes when the statistical literacy of the population is at a low level. On the less serious scale of missed opportunities or too high expectations regarding statistics, there are, of course, also observations that suggest that an improvement in statistical literacy would be very good for politics, both on the part of the population and on the part of politics itself. Overall, the aim must be to promote and nurture a culture in which a conscious and experienced approach regarding data and statistics has become the standard.

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              Contours of citizen science: a vignette study

              Citizen science has expanded rapidly over the past decades. Yet, defining citizen science and its boundaries remained a challenge, and this is reflected in the literature—for example in the proliferation of typologies and definitions. There is a need for identifying areas of agreement and disagreement within the citizen science practitioners community on what should be considered as citizen science activity. This paper describes the development and results of a survey that examined this issue, through the use of vignettes—short case descriptions that describe an activity, while asking the respondents to rate the activity on a scale from ‘not citizen science’ (0%) to ‘citizen science’ (100%). The survey included 50 vignettes, of which five were developed as clear cases of not-citizen science activities, five as widely accepted citizen science activities and the others addressing 10 factors and 61 sub-factors that can lead to controversy about an activity. The survey has attracted 333 respondents, who provided over 5100 ratings. The analysis demonstrates the plurality of understanding of what citizen science is and calls for an open understanding of what activities are included in the field.
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                Journal
                Statistical Journal of the IAOS
                SJI
                IOS Press
                18747655
                18759254
                June 07 2022
                June 07 2022
                : 38
                : 2
                : 453-461
                Article
                10.3233/SJI-220956
                250e911f-39a5-45f1-943a-29d1954fbd0b
                © 2022
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