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David Spiegelhalter on Risk and the Use (and Misuse) of Statistics | Suprising Market Internals

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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Are We Playing Number Theatre in the Investment World?

Numbers and statistics can be manipulated to support any argument of a person's choosing. One must have that critical ability to examine one's feelings and motivations in order to understand the numbers as they're presented. The vast, vast majority of macro data is number theatre. So there's lots of false signal out there, and it really amounts to a lot of numbers theatre.

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