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Critical thinking questions--Data Literacy
- Where do you go to find data or statistics?
- When looking at data, consider:
- What was counted?
- How was the data collected?
- Who counted? Why did they count?
- Is there bias?
- Is anything missing?
- Are the numbers meaningful? Do they make sense?
- Is the number rounded? How does that generalization affect your understanding?
- In what ways can data, especially charts or graphs, be misleading?
- What factors would make you more likely to trust data or statistics?
- How do statistics, or your perception of statistics, change when you compare them to a statistical benchmark? For example, the number of deaths from a particular cause in a year may seem like a lot until you compare it to the total number of deaths.
