"The bottom line is that humans are very bad at understanding
probability. Everyone finds it difficult, even I do. We just have to get
better at it. We need to learn to spot when we are being manipulated.
Changing axes on a chart is one way, but there are many other subtle
ways to do it."
A Cambridge professor on how to stop being so easily manipulated by misleading statistics
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Statistics Are Easily Manipulated
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