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5 Απρ 2019 · Since its publication ten years ago, Damned Lies and Statistics has emerged as the go-to handbook for spotting bad statistics and learning to think critically about these influential...
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Numbers—even good numbers—can be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Their meanings can be stretched, twisted, distorted, or mangled. These alterations create what we can call mutant statistics —distorted versions of the original figures. Many mutant statistics have their roots in innumeracy.
The association of lies with statistics— carried on by the title of Joel Best’s book—goes back at least to nineteenth-century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli’s reputed characterization of three kinds of lies in political life: “lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Inspired by Orwell's chilling account of brainwashing, propaganda, and the obliteration of the lines between fiction and truth, Mordechai Gordon attempts to make sense of the phenomenon of lying in politics as a challenge to deliberative civics.
1 Μαρ 2011 · This article outlines the basic statistical processes behind public opinion polls and provides social studies teachers with activities that encourage students to critically question political...
31 Ιουλ 2024 · The entrenchment of the big lie erodes the core of American democracy and puts pressure on Republican politicians to cater to antidemocratic forces (Arceneaux and Truex, 2022; Jacobson, 2021,...
27 Ιουν 2018 · ABSTRACT. Inspired by Orwell's chilling account of brainwashing, propaganda, and the obliteration of the lines between fiction and truth, Mordechai Gordon attempts to make sense of the phenomenon of lying in politics as a challenge to deliberative civics education.