Montana Chapter of the ASA Meeting, Fall 2020

Our meeting will take place during the afternoon on Friday, October 9, 2020. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Kristian Lum https://highlights.cis.upenn.edu/welcome-kristian-lum/ will be discussing algorithmic fairness and how she has used Statistics for social justice.

Schedule (all times in MST)

To avoid Zoom fatigue our program will be shorter than it has been in past years. The schedule is as follows:

• 12:30-1:00pm, MST Optional informal Lunch and “meet and greet”

  Please log in to socalize with chapter members you don’t see on a regular basis before the program begins.

• 1:10 - 2:00pm, MST Keynote Address: Dr. Kristian Lum, UPenn

  Kristian Lum https://highlights.cis.upenn.edu/welcome-kristian-lum/ will be discussing how she has used Statistics for Social Justice

• 2:15 - 3:00pm, MST Small group discussions about the history of Statistics, Statistics for Social Justice, and beginning the development of anti-racist curriculum in Statistics courses.

  Please be ready to have open discussions within small groups regarding how we can begin to overahaul curriculum in Statistics courses and adjust our practices to be actively anti-racist. Discussion materials and prompts will be provided, but are by no means meant to be strictly followed if discussions evolve in a different way within groups.

• 3:00 - 3:15pm, MST Break

• 3:20 - 3:40pm, MST Moses Obiri, Interview and Internship Experiences

  Moses Obiri is in his final semester pursuing Ph.D. in Statistics at Montana State University. His Ph.D. research is focused on Design of Experiments and data analysis. He was recently a PhD intern in the Applied Statistics and Computational Modeling division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His interview and internship experiences gained over the past year will be shared in this presentation.

• 3:45 - 4:30pm, MST MT Chapter business meeting.

Join information

We will use Zoom to conduct this meeting. Please join using the following information:

Topic: Montana Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Annual Meeting
Time: Oct 9, 2020 12:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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Small Group Discussion Resources

Please find a set of discussion prompts in the shared google doc: https://tinyurl.com/y3n57y8p

More work from Dr. Lum about predictive policing and algorithmic fairness

• https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00960.x

Significance article about Sir Francis Galton and his, Karl Pearson’s, and R.A. Fisher’s ties to Eugenics and different approaches to acknowledging history

• Robert Langkjaer‐Bain, The troubling legacy of Francis Galton, Significance, Vol. 16 No. 3, 2019-05-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01275.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi on Statistician Frederick Hoffman’s work and The American Nightmare

• https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/612457/

  • ASA’s profile of Hoffman: https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/10/29/sih-hoffman
  • Related podcast: https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/

Other resources for reading, learning, un-learning, and getting involved

• Github repositiory dedicated to the History of Statistics: https://github.com/sctyner/history_of_statistics/

• American Association for the Advancement of Science Statement: https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ceo-statement-shutdownstem-and-black-lives-matter

  • Shut Down STEM: https://www.shutdownstem.com/
• Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians: https://opi.mt.gov/Portals/182/Page%20Files/Indian%20Education/Indian%20Education%20101/essentialunderstandings.pdf
• Talk Math with your friends recording of Dr. Belin Tsinnajinnie’s talk, Disrupting Settler Colonial Mindsets in Mathematics. https://youtu.be/OYrx2tf6cYo
• ASA’s Justice Equity Diversity Inlusion JEDI outreach group: https://cwstat.org/asa-justice-equity-diversity-inclusion-jedi-outreach-group/
• Nice White Parents Podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html