Straight Statistics is another good, and more general, source:
www.straightstatistics.org
And Sense About Science, which I am not so familiar with:
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/other/35/
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 15:12 +0100, Barbara Davies wrote:
> Suggest a good place to start might be NHS Behind the Headlines which does just this for health and medical news, eg http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/04April/Pages/no-overall-benefit-prostate-cancer-screening.aspx
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> Good luck
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: psci-com: on public engagement with science [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jones, HM
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> Subject: [PSCI-COM] suggestions needed for a 'Science Behind the Headlines' course
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> Dear Psci-ers,
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> I have (perhaps hastily) agreed to run a series of adult evening classes entitled 'The Science Behind the Headlines', with the idea of taking a current sciencey news story and looking carefully at the arguments and assumptions that have been presented.
>
> I had the lofty ideals of producing a group of people who read the papers with a bit more of a critical eye.
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> Now the sessions are approaching fast and I need to turn my very vague, woolly ideas into a series of ten, 2-hour sessions!
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> Any suggestions will be gratefully received!
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> Many thanks,
> Hilary M Jones
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