Practical Significance | Episode 52: Celebrating MSAM with Claire Bowen, the Inaugural Dionne Price Public Lecture Presenter

On April 22, Claire McKay Bowen will deliver the inaugural Dionne Price Public Lecture. April is also Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, so, to celebrate, Bowen joins “Practical Significance” hosts Donna LaLonde and Ron Wasserstein to explore what “statistics awareness” truly means today.

As senior fellow leading data governance and privacy at the Urban Institute’s Family and Financial Wellbeing Division, Bowen shares her statistical journey and the mentors who shaped her career. She also reveals the fundamental statistical concept she believes every citizen should understand and why it matters.

Bowen emphasizes the critical need for greater statistical literacy: “Many people accept statistics at face value without considering their origins. As statisticians, we must help others understand the data behind the numbers, how to interpret them, and what they actually mean in practice.”

The episode concludes with Ron’s entertaining “Top Ten Pranks to Pull on Your Statistician Colleagues.” Haven’t registered for the Dionne Price Public Lecture yet? Attend in person or virtually by registering today.