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