Friday, April 1, 2016

Statistics Are Easily Manipulated

"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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