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Spurious Correlations
Spurious correlations. They’re everywhere. Cable news, “venerable” news sites, blogs and, of course, the twitterverse. Every time something sensational happens we’re inundated with out-of-context,...
View ArticleFerguson, MO – Media use of isolated factoids fosters anger not helpful...
This USA Today snippet on the number of blacks killed by white police officers isolates a single data point, without context. The viewer/reader is left without any sense of cause or even useful...
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