• Discuss the Ways in which Statistics Can Be Used or Misused to Assist and Mislead Us, and how We Can Determine Whether to Accept the Statistical Evidence Present to Us

     

    Eseja2 Statistika

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Publicēts: 16.10.2005.
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For many years now, people have been using statistics to present data to the masses who then took these numbers for granted and believed it without any further inquiry. But what are such statistics really? Professor John Deere says "Statistics is a way to get useful information from raw data" I here must emphasize on the word "useful" for different things are useful to different people,; it is just like me saying, "it is hot in here." Such a statement is only speaking for the one who said it. This by it self can trigger an illusion to the one that hears it.…

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