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How to be a data detective (Tim Harford)

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Are You Using Statistics to Motivate Behavior Change?

i'm being asked to take this statistics seriously. Where did it come from? How did they gather it? Was it just some stupid survey that somebody did in order to try to sell ice cream, which is where some statistics come from. Or was it serious work done by serious people with resourcesyu know, the national health service in the u k,. we got data on how everybody died. And you know, there's a lot of data out there. You could start taking it quite seriously.

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