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| Sixty percent of 16 to 24 years olds—people raised surrounded by technology—are overwhelmed by data they must read and analyze. Can librarians help? M_A_Y_A—GETTY IMAGES |
In his work, Chapters from My Autobiography, Mark Twain famously complained (and attributed to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli), "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Imagine Twain’s frustration in today’s data-driven world. But he would have been in good company. Even as information, analytics, and statistics drive more decisions in our daily lives, we’re facing a data literacy crisis.
