{"id":514,"date":"2012-11-01T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mii.ucla.edu\/causality\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-11-01T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T01:30:13","slug":"a-new-prize-announced-causality-in-statistics-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/11\/01\/a-new-prize-announced-causality-in-statistics-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Prize Announced Causality in Statistics Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Statistical Association has announced a new Prize,<br \/>\n&#8220;Causality in Statistics Education&#8221;, aimed to encourage the teaching of<br \/>\nbasic causal inference in introductory statistics courses.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation for the prize is discussed in an interview I gave to Ron Wasserstein:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.amstat.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/pearl\/\">http:\/\/magazine.amstat.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/pearl\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nomination procedures and selection criteria can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/education\/causalityprize\/\">http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/education\/causalityprize\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope readers of this blog will participate, either by innovating new<br \/>\n ways of teaching causation or by identifying candidates deserving of the prize.<br \/>\nJudea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Statistical Association has announced a new Prize, &#8220;Causality in Statistics Education&#8221;, aimed to encourage the teaching of basic causal inference in introductory statistics courses. The motivation for the prize is discussed in an interview I gave to Ron Wasserstein: http:\/\/magazine.amstat.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/01\/pearl\/ Nomination procedures and selection criteria can be found here: http:\/\/www.amstat.org\/education\/causalityprize\/ I hope readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causality.cs.ucla.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}