Sanne Blauw: How to defend yourself against misleading statistics – TEDxMaastricht
About Sanne Blauw, journalist and statistician who holds a PhD in Statistics, exposes us to the biases hidden in the data and statistics that appear in the media. Basically, we can make a set of data say whatever we want it to say, we can ‘force’ them to serve any purpose and back up whatever we want to demonstrate. And consequentially, we can trick the audience into thinking that data (data! cold numbers! something apparently objective and, right?) really mean what we want to demonstrate. Blauw warns us against the dangers of manipulating [...]
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: A Data Literacy Primer
It has become remarkably simple to create a valid-looking website, which to the unassuming eye resembles an official, big-name news outlet. But as if verifying text content wasn't hard enough, seductive visualisations; graphs, charts, and maps, made with free tools found anywhere on the internet, can make fact checking even harder.
