Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:07:44 +0000 By Prof Eustarckio Kazonga The concept of media, in this article, is used to mean the means of communication with a large group of people. This includes broadcasting channels such as newspaper, radio and television. Statistical literacy and reasoning are required in order to fully understand media stories. Journalists, in particular, need to apply statistics in their work of informing and educating the public. Journalists use statistics to enrich their stories since statistics are part of our living. It is time to demystify use of statistics in the media and begin to see journalists appropriately and confidently use statistics to enhance stories. Most of the times mistakes that are made in news items are not getting the calculations wrong but due to problems in the application to the data and interpretation of results. The role of a journalist is not to do complicated statistical calculations but to reason and […]
