MeritKeep

Plan any subject, week by week

Pick a subject and say how many hours a week you actually have. You get the real order the skills have to be learned in, the graded work each stretch ends in, and an honest total in weeks. It is arithmetic over a published skill map, not a plan a model wrote on the way to you.

No accountNo email7 subjects
SubjectSubject
01 · The estimate

7 weeks at 4 hours a week

26.3Hours of work
7Weeks
14Things to do
2Marked
That is the core path. Statistics & Data Literacy also declares 3.5 hours of specialist skills that are not counted above — take those too and it is 8 weeks. Both numbers assume you hit 4 hours every week, which nobody does; the plan does not expire if you don’t.
02 · The plan

Week by week, in the order it has to be learned

Each line is one thing to be able to do. The order is the skill map’s own: nothing appears before what it needs.
  1. Week 15.5h starts here
    • Reading a chart honestlyName what a chart's construction is doing to the reader's impression, and redraw it fairly1.5h
    • Summarising a distributionChoose a summary statistic that fits the distribution's shape and say why the other would mislead2h
    • Variation and spreadReport a spread alongside a central figure, in units the reader can act on2h · runs into week 2
  2. Week 24h starts here
    • Population and sampleState precisely which population a figure supports a claim about, and which it does not2h
    • Sample size intuitionSay whether a reported difference is large enough to distinguish from noise at the sample size given2h · runs into week 3
  3. Week 34h starts here
    • Sampling biasIdentify who is missing from a dataset and say which direction their absence pushes the result2h
    • Correlation and causeName a plausible confounder for a causal claim and say what evidence would rule it out2h · runs into week 4
  4. Week 44.5h starts here
    • Base ratesWork out how often a positive result is actually correct, given the underlying rate2h
    • Reading an experimentJudge whether an experiment's design supports the conclusion drawn from it2.5h · runs into week 5
  5. Week 54h starts here
    • Reporting a number responsiblyReport a figure with its denominator, its exclusions and no more precision than it has1.5h
    • Uncertainty and intervalsReport a figure as a range and state correctly what the range means2.5h · runs into week 6
  6. Week 62h starts here
    • What significance does not meanCorrect a claim that treats a significant result as a large or important one2h
  7. Week 72.3h starts here
This is the same plan we would give anyoneThere is no box here for how good you already are, because saying so has never made it true. This is what Statistics & Data Literacy takes, and the only thing that takes work out of it is work of yours that has been marked. What the ten-minute check gives you is the other half: where you stand in it before you start.
Check where you stand in Statistics & Data LiteracyAbout ten minutes. No account.
The plan above is Statistics & Data Literacy in full, and the marked work in it is published with its checklist before you start. Want a subject nobody has written? Ask for it — that one does need an account, and a few minutes.

One cookie, so we can see which subjects people finish and where the site loses them — plus a replay of where you click. Nothing you type is recorded, and once you’re signed in the words on screen are blanked out too. No advertising, nothing sold. The detail.