CRITICAL THINKING WITH STATISTICS
STA1CTS
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Critical Thinking with Statistics will help you to understand why we need data in our daily and professional lives, how data are produced, and how they are transformed using statistics into information that empowers us to make decisions and solve problems. This subject will make you appreciate how numbers reported in the media shape debates about social, economic, and environmental problems and policies. Importantly, it will also make you appreciate how numbers reported in the media can often be misleading, and it will teach you how to critically evaluate the information that you are bombarded with on a daily basis. The emphasis in this subject will be on key concepts rather than mathematical calculations, and you will learn statistics by doing it with the SPSS statistical software package and real data from your discipline area (i.e., science, psychology, or business).
School: Life Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Warren Paul
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 1 - UG
Available as Elective: No
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Capstone subject: No
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Prerequisites: N/A
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Incompatible subjects: ECO1ISB OR STA1SS OR STA1LS OR STA1PSY OR STA1STM
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Learning resources
Statistics in Practice
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Moore, Notz & Fligner
Year: 2015
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Publisher: Freeman, NY
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Statistics for Psychology
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Aron, A., Aron, E. and Coups, E.
Year: 2013
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Publisher: Pearson
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Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Moore, McCabe, Alwan, Craig & Duckworth
Year: 2011
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Publisher: Freeman, NY
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
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