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In Reply to: Studies have shown that... posted by Duke on March 15, 2007 at 23:35:20:
…once asked her class what statistics had in common with the bikini.After what I assume was probably a reasonable pause for stunned silence, he told them "what the reveal is interesting, what they conceal is vital". A very valuable lesson that frequently informs my assessment of statistically based claims.
I think most people can do arithmetic, ie the basic tasks of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, reasonably well by which I mean well enough for the normal activities of life. Where the problems start is when they start to reason with numbers, to read meaning into them, or engage in activities where numbers are descriptive in ways other than the descriptive use of numberical information like "36-24-36". You have to learn some things over and above arithmetic to understand what statistical measures and some of the other things done with numbers mean , and that's where the level of education in the general population starts to fall off.
David Aiken
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