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literacy with other agents in society, such as educational institutions and the
media, who can act as partners in cooperation in the mission to raise critical
information users and skilled information producers.
As we aim to develop the basic abilities of statistical literacy at length –
which is the main goal especially for the ISLP project – it is especially important
to examine information usage from the standing of each citizen and consider
their life circumstances and skills. Information, or statistical information, is not
a detached number or formula, but a part of each individual data user’s
information process. It can be a tool in both mundane and difficult decision-
making situations, part of the learning process, a communicative method and
so on. The poster competitions organised by ISLP for their part train youth to
statistical thinking and using statistics in many ways and from different
perspectives.
On a larger scale, reliable statistical information and its practical
application is a part of democratic, egalitarian, and society developing capital.
ISLP wishes to also be a part of this process and encourages more and more
participants to join its network.

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web.org/icots/10/proceedings/pdfs/ICOTS10_9K3.pdf Invited paper.
2. Center for Media Literacy. Media Literacy: A Definition and More.
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6. Helenius, R. (2016). Facing the Future with Knowledge – Cooperation
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