Sunday, December 6, 2020

Why do people keep getting this wrong.

Matt Parker in Why Do People Keep Getting This Wrong?  It is very close to my beef that journalists seem, as a class, to be functionally innumerate and therefore very bad at reporting anything quantifiable.  I am not sure I buy Mr. Parker's explanation for why one type of error keeps happening but it is at least plausible.

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