Topic
Statistical literacy
Most misleading statistics are not fabricated. They are real figures read the wrong way — an average standing in for a distribution, a rise measured from a low point, a correlation quietly promoted to a cause.
This topic covers the small set of concepts that catch most of those errors. None of them require maths beyond arithmetic, and each one is the difference between a number that informs you and a number that flatters whoever published it.
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In this topic
What it covers
- 1Why the mean and the median disagree, and which one a skewed distribution demands
- 2What a base rate is, and why ignoring it makes accurate tests produce mostly false positives
- 3Simpson's paradox: how a trend can reverse the moment you split the data
- 4Regression to the mean, and why the best performers almost always do worse next year
- 5Correlation, causation, and the third variable that usually explains both
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