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We're sure not great at teaching biomedical people statistics. It's not a rigorous study or anything, but this about sums it up: "Most respondents did not have
by phobosanomaly 6y ago
We're sure not great at teaching biomedical people statistics.
It's not a rigorous study or anything, but this about sums it up: "Most respondents did not have any formal training in data literacy. Respondents considered most tasks highly relevant to their work but rated their expertise in tasks lower."
Federer LM, Lu YL, Joubert DJ. Data literacy training needs of biomedical researchers. J Med Libr Assoc. 2016;104(1):52-57. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.104.1.008
I work in the field, and am often embarrassed by how rudimentary my stats skills are. I'm not an outlier.