In a discussion about the desired direction of development of intro level statistics courses, a group where I am a member came to a preliminary agreement that It is important to develop applied statistics. I started to think about that concept in terms of main goals of a course. The two main goals I suggest are
1. abilities to use statistics in scientific work 2. ability to study statistics further So nr. 1 is the goal that concerns the "applied" part. So I went one step further to try to express aspects of this, and I call it the USABILITY aspects of the introductory course. I know that this word is used in the context of evaluating web applications. Now to my questions: Can anybody direct me to an article or book that discusses usability oin the context of knowledge? Is there a better direction to follow when discussing the usefulness/applicability of statistics skills and knowledge? Rolf Dalin ************************************************** Rolf Dalin Department of Information Tchnology and Media Mid Sweden University S-870 51 SUNDSVALL Sweden Phone: 060 148690, international: +46 60 148690 Fax: 060 148970, international: +46 60 148970 Mobile: 0705 947896, intnational: +46 70 5947896 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.itk.mh.se/~roldal/ ************************************************** ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
