171: The easiest person to fool is yourself (with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris)
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How to Find Fishy Data
The app asks you to enter 10 random numbers and it tells you how unlikely that set of 10 numbers is. It can do this for ones, twos, threes, fives, one digit numbers, odd numbers,. Prime numbers, prime numbers, round numbers, numbers that have sort of a palindrome. And if you have a small enough set of data and enough parameters you can look at, you're going to find things that are statistically unlikely just because that will happen by chance.
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