Anonymous
8/16/2025, 4:45:46 PM
No.82202238
>>82202137
The problem is that you can impress a lot of people with decontextualized statistics, and many humans are not good at statistics. Partly for the reason that this is exactly the kind of math they rarely teach at schools thoroughly.
If you see very controversial statistics made by people with the agenda to incite hate against any group of people you will almost surely find one of the standard biases ("reversing" conditional probabilities, correlation != causation, base rate fallacy, obfuscation of predictors by mixing very different data sets, ...). And it seems to work pretty well in people.
The problem is that you can impress a lot of people with decontextualized statistics, and many humans are not good at statistics. Partly for the reason that this is exactly the kind of math they rarely teach at schools thoroughly.
If you see very controversial statistics made by people with the agenda to incite hate against any group of people you will almost surely find one of the standard biases ("reversing" conditional probabilities, correlation != causation, base rate fallacy, obfuscation of predictors by mixing very different data sets, ...). And it seems to work pretty well in people.