I present you the 193% chart.
So this one’s easy to mock. But I’m often frustrated by my inability to get my students in political science to recognize how important statistics and data presentation are to politics and power…and this is coming from a qualitatively inclined scholar. I think part of it is because we fail to treat statistics as a discourse. I may have enchantment on the brain (see Brian Rasmussen’s and Don Waisenan’s posts), but it seems like we either imbue statistics with an mystical, impenetrable quality above everyday conversation or we treat is as an illegitimate discourse easily manipulable by elites. This makes them either reject it or embrace it Kool-aid style. There needs to be a sweet spot in our public life between viewing statistics as somehow separate from everyday discourse and viewing as an illegitimate discourse (i.e. the language of Sarah Palin’s famous New York elites).
Here’s the video. Isn’t there a WTF moment as this guy is reading the prompter?
HT: Flowing Data
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Don Waisanen — November 28, 2009
Thanks for posting the chart above--best laugh I've had all week. I think you're right in treating statistics as a discourse. I've long thought that if I ever had to teach a statistics course, I would call it "statistics as public argument." I'd probably start with a week of qualitative approaches, talking about, for instance, how "stories" and "testimonies" are public arguments, and then get into how statistics are speech-act arguments, similarly holding power as a mode of reasoning linking evidence to claims in society. I had my students watch about 10 minutes of Michael Moore's "Sicko" this semester, and had them categorize what kinds of "evidence" were operating within the film. They seemed to walk away with a less mystified, more capable and critical understanding of how narratives, testimonies, statistics, etc. can and should operate (and blend) in public contexts as a result. DW
Roula — November 29, 2009
Oh this is awesome, thank you. And dwaisane, that sounds like a really good class. Anyone in public policy school should have to take something like that, but also anyone taking a straight stats class should learn this sort of stuff as a complement I think.
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