3 ways to spot a bad statistic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwwanld4T1w
https://www.ted.com/talks/mona_chalabi_3_ways_to_spot_a_bad_statistic (Alternate link)
Publisher, TED, Video, YouTube
Sometimes it's hard to know what statistics are worthy of trust. But we shouldn't count out stats altogether ... instead, we should learn to look behind them. In this delightful, hilarious talk, data journalist Mona Chalabi shares handy tips to help question, interpret and truly understand what the numbers are saying.
5 August 2017 Edit: 20 August 2017
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- The Australian Curriculum
- Statistics and Probability, Data representation and interpretation, ACMSP169 Year 7 Identify and investigate issues involving continuous or large count data collected f
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Statistics and Probability, MA4-19SP Data Collection and Representation
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