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How to Spot Statistical Garbage

The Political Orphanage

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How Statistics Can Fail Us

Aaron Brown is a Bloomberg columnist and NYU adjunct professor of mathematical finance. He says studies like the one that said vegetarians are twice less likely to get cola were clickbait. The study was based on some random survey of people, but it's an embarrassingly bad study, he says. "It's more like a middle school science project than a study"

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