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Gerald Ashley & Paul Craven on Statistics, Spreadsheets & Scam Artists

The Human Risk Podcast

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The Tyranny of the Spreadsheet

I always thought, I've always thought people certainly accept spreadsheets as being sort of near sort of the gospel truth. So in a way, it's an authority thing, isn't it? Because if something is sort of in a formal document, it seems more important than if it's just a handwritten note. If something has gone through some sort of program or algorithm, again, it gets given maybe a misplaced sense of authority and people buy into that. And yeah, a fascinating idea that we almost reject the simple in favor of the complicated. Yeah. That's interesting. It's much more interesting than the other guys come up with a simple way of doing it and which works. But

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