About Statistical Thinking in Pedagogics. On the Margin of the Reading of Wiesław Szymczak’s book The practice of Statistical Inference

Abstract

Summary The article is devoted to the issue of statistical thinking in pedagogy and research conducted in this discipline. Inspired by the readings of the book by Wiesław Szymczak, The Practice of Statistical Inference, it contains comments on popular associations and misunderstandings about what statistics is, what its principles and goals are, and therefore also comments on the using of statistical methods inconsistently with the underlying assumptions of statistical theory.