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How Statistics Get Misread: A Field Guide
The number is accurate. The conclusion you draw from it is where things go wrong. Starting from the medieval English life expectancy figure of thirty-one years at birth, this episode builds a taxonomy of the statistical categories most likely to be misread: the mean without a measure of spread, mean versus median, the fuzzy word "average," percentage change versus percentage points, relative versus absolute risk, the false positive paradox, survivorship bias, Simpson's Paradox, correlation versus causation, and regression to the mean. Each one gets a concrete example — the bar where one…
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