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This might be election season speaking, but I'd love to have people take a course based on case studies, telling misleading stats from suggestive stats from str
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y ago
This might be election season speaking, but I'd love to have people take a course based on case studies, telling misleading stats from suggestive stats from strong evidence. I'm so frustrated seeing misleading figures parroted around by talking heads in media, in politics, and online. Often it's not just misleading, it's wrong. I suspect it's because these people (or their teams) just don't have the practice digging in to do a cursory "Is this bullshit?" check.
As far as societal bang for your buck, I'd give people bullshit detecting classes. I'd focus on this goal specifically, not incidentally.