Sunday, September 13, 2020

Tim Harford on statistics and vivid reports

Tim Harford  "Statistics, lies and the virus: Tim Harford’s five lessons from a pandemic" in Financial Times :"Rather than bringing some kind of consensus, more years of education simply seem to provide people with the cognitive tools they require to reach the politically convenient conclusion. From climate change to gun control to certain vaccines, there are questions for which the answer is not a matter of evidence but a matter of group identity." https://app.ft.com/content/92f64ea9-3378-4ffe-9fff-318ed8e3245e?fbclid=IwAR3-oyqteypUnXpBV7MpVH-zL2hmgUXIlVuvZuMxl3i7-2g7ixF6e1bqsCs

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