从一个社会热点问题看统计教学

A Hot Issue and Statistical Teaching

随着统计学在日常生活、社会调查研究中的应用越来越广泛,统计错用、滥用的现象也层出不穷,造成诸多的错误与误解。根据当下的一个社会热点,分析了当前统计教学与实践中可能出现的问题,如变量定义不明、方法选择不合理、相关关系和因果关系混淆等,并提出了注重方法应用条件、进行探究型教学等开展优质统计教学的几点建议。

With the increasing application of statistics in daily life and social survey, the phenomenon of misuse and abuse is no longer rare, leading to a large number of mistakes and misunderstanding.This paper, according to a hot issue in recent days, analyzes the possible questions in statistics teaching and practice, such as obscurity of variable definition, inappropriateness of methods, confusion of relativeness and causative relation, and proposes several suggestions for better teaching, such as emphasizing conditions of method application and inquiry teaching.