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How statistics can be misleading - Mark Liddell

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Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the results completely upside down. Mark Liddell investigates Simpson’s paradox.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Mark Liddell
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Director
Mike Foster, Tom Sanders
Producer
Tom Sanders
Compositor
Mike Foster, Tom Sanders
Animator
Mike Foster, Tom Sanders
Sound Designer
Tom Lowe
Narrator
Addison Anderson

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