Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

By Matt Atkins

Back after a brief hiatus with a lazy set of links to the BBC website.  An interesting set of articles by Michael Blastland exploring the abuse of mathematics in the media.

Guess it’s fairly timely seeing as the international house of numbers is about to collapse.  Makes you glad you’re still renting and didn’t start that pension fund.

1. Surveys

2. Counting

3. Percentages

4. Averages

5. Causation

6. Final Lesson

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