Quantitative Reasoning and Society

An interdisciplinary introduction to the ways in which data can be used to enhance thinking and decision-making capacities, including using simple statistical techniques, creating visual representatioms of quantitative data, deriving accurate conclusionsfrom quantitative data, and using data effectivelyin analyses and arguments. Assignments build capacity to evaluate and write clearly about quantitative evidence using methods for analyzing and communicating about data that do notrequire complex mathematics.