U.S. adults self-report poor statistical literacy but high willingness to use statistics if they understood it better

In this brief study published last June, a U.S. population-representative poll showed that 62% of U.S. adults self-report having little to no idea what statistics or statistical concepts like p-values are, but 90% of them would base decisions on reported statistics at least sometimes if they understood them better. This presents both a need and an opportunity to teach statistics better to people, especially adult learners who are not in STEM, so they can better understand and scrutinize editorialized scientific content that they are interested in when such are reported by the media or found on social media.

Submitted October 4, 2026 at 12:28PM by Neither-Remote-3419 https://ift.tt/SUer8Kw