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
