5 steps to present successfully to upper management about complex stats (and everything else)! - a podcast by Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske, biometricians, statisticians and leaders in the pharma industry
from 2021-01-25T17:00
Should we oversimplify statistics, or should managers learn more about statistics?
If you've been working as a statistician for a while, you know that you have to keep it simple if you want managers to understand you. Of course, I speak about those managers not being statisticians themselves.
There are a lot of ways to explain statistical concepts to them, but this adds time to the presentation. Sometimes there won't even be a presentation, and all you have is sending the report via email.
From reading, from my experience, and from talking to other experienced statisticians, I have distilled the knowledge about this challenge into 5 steps.
Further episodes of The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
Further podcasts by Alexander Schacht and Benjamin Piske, biometricians, statisticians and leaders in the pharma industry