Cultivating Critical Statistical Literacy in the Classroom

This article describes an activity and resource from The New York Times that can be used to help learners cultivate critical statistical literacy. Critical statistical literacy involves understanding, interpreting, and questioning statistical information to make informed decisions (Casey et al., 2023; Franklin et al., 2015; Weiland, 2017). It is a vital skill that needs to be learned and reinforced with students early and often. The authors find What's Going On in This Graph? (WGOITGraph?), a collaboration between the American Statistical Association (ASA) and The New York Times Learning Network (NYT LN), to be a useful, accessible, effective online resource and share an example implementation.