Statistics and trial design is something strongly mathematical that almost no-one understands and yet is vitally important to decision-making in the modern worl

Statistics and trial design is something strongly mathematical that almost no-one understands and yet is vitally important to decision-making in the modern world. One need only look to the Daily Mail for evidence of this: every few days they scream that SOMETHING ELSE CAUSES CANCER based on a study which shows nothing of the sort. I imagine people actually change their behaviour based on this kind of fake "science", and given an intuitive understanding of stats, it ought to have much less power to sway people. (See also: an offshoot of the Daily Mail Oncology Ontology, https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/ https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/ )