I have assembled a list of statistical and numerical illiteracy examples in the media, as they appeared in Chance News online (a statistics wiki) between 2005 and 2014. See "Collected Forsooths at https://www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Collected_Forsooths. I would appreciate feedback about its usefulness in the classroom.
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2$\begingroup$ Welcome to the site! There are two somewhat related questions: Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of and Examples of Innumeracy; the latter mentions your resource in an answer $\endgroup$– quid ♦Feb 21, 2015 at 17:51
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2$\begingroup$ Don't you mean "innumeracy" rather than "illiteracy"? $\endgroup$– Rory DaultonFeb 21, 2015 at 17:52
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$\begingroup$ Great site and many thanks for these other links. Please, if anyone else has more, post them. I am also looking for the third in the trilogy... illiterate, innumerate and aspatial $\endgroup$– NaNFeb 22, 2015 at 2:18
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$\begingroup$ Sorry about the "illiteracy" term - I know better but am always in too much of a hurry! Besides Paulos, see MacNeal's Mathsemantics (goodreads.com/book/show/938114.Mathsemantics); this is 2nd ed. of book I read, and used in college classes, many years ago. $\endgroup$– Margaret CibesFeb 27, 2015 at 19:22
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