1Department of Statistics, Manipal University, Manipal
2MCON, Manipal University, Manipal, 576104, Karnataka
3Pharmacology Department, KMC, Manipal University, Manipal
4Department of Respiratory Medicine, KMC, Manipal University, Manipal
5Sreedevi College of Nursing, Mangalore, Karnataka
6Sreedevi College of Allied Health Sciences, Karnataka
7MCON, Manipal University, Manipal
8MCON, Manipal University, Manipal
Attitudes towards statistics are important because they may influence the learning process. In particular, students’ attitude and beliefs about statistics can affect the extent to which students will develop useful statistical thinking skills, whether they will apply what they have learned outside of the classroom, and whether or not students will choose to enroll in further statistics courses. Attitudes toward statistics scale (Wise, 1985) was used collect data on attitude towards statistics of students and teachers of nursing profession. Scale scores were compared between age groups, between students and teachers, and between those who had statistics as part of their curriculum and those did not have. Findings of the comparison and implications for teaching were discussed.
Attitude, Biostatistics, health care personnel
