Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

 

DataCritica aims to be a widely accessible bilingual (Spanish-English) peer-reviewed digital journal for the exchange of original research, ideas, and news about statistics.  The title of the journal, DataCritica highlights the dual nature of a journal that aims at linking the science of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and representing data, statistics, with the tradition of critical theory. DataCritica promotes the conscious development of critical statistics, an approach to statistics that contests positivist attitudes that produce models of ahistorical and atheoretical quantitative sciences with pretensions of purely objective, universal, and non-normative knowledge. DataCritica promotes a critical perspective on specific statistical facts, concepts, and methods, and examines the implicit worldview of professional statisticians. The nature of the journal rejects the traditional disciplinary division of knowledge, under which statistics is conceived as a field of mathematics. The journal, therefore, approaches statistical issues from a multiplicity of perspectives, which includes historical, sociological, cultural, rhetorical, philosophical approaches to statistics.  DataCritica conceives statistics as an essential tool to promote democracy and social justice; hence, it promotes the statistical literacy necessary for citizens’ participation in democratic societies.  DataCritica will serve as a forum where a diversity of forms of radical criticism can coalesce, aiming to build a community of critics of statistics and fostering the principled use of statistics for social and scientific criticism.

 

OBJECTIVES OF THE JOURNAL

  1. To acknowledge ways in which the practice of statistics shapes perceptions and representations of individuals, societies, and the universe.
  2. To recognize statistics as organizational products, social constructs, and rhetorical devices, considering the specific interests of social groups, state bureaucracies, and international organizations. 
  3. To describe ways in which the strategic use of statistics affects political change, builds communities, and develops identities.  
  4. To analyze how statistics express and mask ideologies of social inequality, related to issues of social class, gender, race, sexual orientation, and colonialism.
  5. To examine historical processes related to statistics, exploring, among other things, the construction of the epistemic authenticity of the discipline of statistics.  
  6. To examine how social activism and organizational characteristics impact and modify statistical practices such as the conduct of censuses, surveys, and other mechanisms of data collection and production. 
  7. To promote the use of statistical products and methods in public policy and social activism.
  8. To promote national statistics policies that guarantee transparent and democratic access to statistical products and methods.
  9. To promote an international dissemination of innovative statistical related insights, techniques, activities, and experiences.
  10. To promote the statistical literacy necessary for citizens’ participation in democratic societies, which includes ideas on teaching statistics at all levels of education.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Section Policies

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Classic Writings

A reproduction of a piece of writing accompanied by an explanation of the importance of this piece for the field of critical statistics.

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Entrevistas Digitales

A 30 minute video of an actual digital interview conducted for this journal.

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Best and Worst Graphs

Analysis of an actual graph, taken from the media or international reports, to illustrate the basic do's and don'ts of graphic making (with full color schemes.)

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Statistics on the News

A short description of a national or international event that have attracted the attention of the media.

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Book Review

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Introduction

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Literature and Statistics

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Supplement

Editors
  • Luis Aviles
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Peer Review Process

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 


ISSN: 1933-7868