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Attitudes towards Statistics among Business Students: Do Gender, Mathematical Skills and Personal Traits Matter?

NTNU Business School, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 6104; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156104
Received: 9 July 2020 / Revised: 24 July 2020 / Accepted: 25 July 2020 / Published: 29 July 2020
(This article belongs to the Collection Science Education Promoting Sustainability)
The purpose of this article was to investigate different variables, by combining mathematical skills and personal traits using The Big Five Model, to see which have the most influence on business students’ attitudes towards statistics. The Big Five personality traits make up a model for capturing various personal characteristics. Specifically, we aimed to understand why there is a gender difference in attitudes towards statistics. Statistical skills are a key factor for success in business studies. The chosen methods were pairwise comparisons (t-test) and a linear regression model, using a sample from a Norwegian business school. The finding was that there is a substantial gender gap towards attitudes towards statistics but taking mathematical skills and personal characteristics into consideration then results in this gap becoming much smaller. Furthermore, mathematical skills and personal traits were shown to have an impact on students’ attitudes towards statistics. View Full-Text
Keywords: attitudes towards statistics; Big Five; mathematical skills; quantitative analysis; gender differences; business studies attitudes towards statistics; Big Five; mathematical skills; quantitative analysis; gender differences; business studies
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Opstad, L. Attitudes towards Statistics among Business Students: Do Gender, Mathematical Skills and Personal Traits Matter? Sustainability 2020, 12, 6104. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156104

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