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Fooled By Statistics
This week in the TED talk “How juries are fooled by statistics,” by Peter Donnelly was quite interesting and got me thinking about a few things. Statistics are used in almost everything and by everyone in the real world today. Statistics are used for data, weather forecasts, stock markets, and etc. People use statistics without even knowing it such as governments, families, teachers, and much more. I understand that statistics are used in our world today for a variety of things, but I did not know how many common errors humans make in interpreting those statistics. Not only that, but these common mistakes can sometimes have a devastating impact. For example, with the Sally Clark case they misinterpreted statistics which caused her to do some
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