Abstract Background and Purpose: Due to constant social, technological and economic change, social actor, interacting with environment, is constantly faced with the need to acquire new knowledge and develop different competences – field of statistics included. The latter, with development of statistical literacy, enables one to reflectively analyse environment and respond to its changes. The aim of this paper is to determine response effectiveness of a better statistically literate social actor to environmental changes from perspective of different generations in Slovenia. Design/Methodology/Approach: Empirical data was collected through a survey questionnaire, processed and analysed using chosen descriptive and inferential statistical methods. 1239 respondents of all three Slovenian generations participated. Two research questions were asked, one relating to the whole sample and the other to three subsamples according to age groups and generations. Results: Based on whole sample of all three generations, it can be concluded that statistical literacy influences responsiveness of social actor to environmental changes. Survey results show that better statistically literate social actors are more completely and actively involved in working environment, personal and social life and respond to environmental changes more effectively. Conclusion: More attention, on urgency to develop statistical literacy individually in professional and everyday life, should be put on raising awareness of statistical knowledge importance to cope with environmental changes and improving supply and accessibility of formal and informal forms of statistical education for all generations. Research results will also contribute to better planning and implementation of statistics education at the level of educational institutions and teachers of all three generations.

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统计素养对环境变化响应的影响

摘要背景和目的：由于社会，技术和经济的不断变化，与环境互动的社会参与者不断面临获取新知识和发展不同能力的需求-包括统计领域。后者随着统计素养的发展，使人们能够反思性地分析环境并响应其变化。本文的目的是从斯洛文尼亚不同年龄段的角度确定具有更好统计能力的社会行为者对环境变化的响应效果。设计/方法/方法：通过调查问卷收集经验数据，使用选定的描述性和推论统计方法进行处理和分析。斯洛文尼亚的三代人中都有1239名受访者参加了会议。提出了两个研究问题，一个与整个样本有关，另一个与三个子样本有关，具体取决于年龄组和年龄。结果：基于所有三代人的整体样本，可以得出结论，统计素养会影响社会行为者对环境变化的反应能力。调查结果表明，具有较高统计素养的社会行为者更全面，更积极地参与工作环境，个人和社会生活，并更有效地应对环境变化。结论：应更加重视在职业和日常生活中分别发展统计素养的紧迫性，以提高对统计知识的重要性的认识，以应对环境变化，并改善各代人的正规和非正式统计教育的供应和可及性。