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So you say statistics needs to be banned because it omits individual tragedies? An intelligent and empathic enough person can use statistics to inform themselv

So you say statistics needs to be banned because it omits individual tragedies? An intelligent and empathic enough person can use statistics to inform themselves while also remembering there are individual tragedies. Statistics is necessary to be able to understand things that are happening around us. Otherwise the information we are getting would be largely meaningless.

56friends 4y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I said: statistics should be banned and statisticians should be put in jail. Next time you encounter human suffering in your life - put things in perspective. Parent died? Well, did you know it’s just 1/8B people on the planet?