This paper is from Session 10G: One hundred years of progress — teaching statistics 1910 to 2010: what have we learned?

which comes under Topic 10: An international perspective on statistics education

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(Monday 12th, 14:00-16:00)

Florence Nightingale (d.1910): passionate educator?

Presenter

• John Bibby (aa42/University of York, England)

Abstract

Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) is well-known as a “passionate statistician”, as well as “the lady with the lamp”. However, she should be remembered primarily not as a nurse, but as a prototype 21st-century evidence-based health manager. Her work included important pedagogic innovations in popular understanding of statistics as well as professional training. This paper will discuss her work, her legacy, and its relevance for the coming century.

Other papers under session 10G ... 10G2: Evolutions and revolutions in government statistics, and what we need... 10G3: One hundred years of progress — teaching statistics 1910 to 2010:... 10G4: One hundred years of progress — teaching statistics 1910 to 2010:...