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#581 - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Understanding The Wonders Of Science

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Statistical Illiteracy: How the State Lottery Benefits from Ignorance

The author believes that the main reason why people are poorly equipped to think statistically is because they are not taught this in school./nThis lack of statistical knowledge can be exploited by the government, as it is in their interest to keep people ignorant of this information in order to generate revenue from the state lottery.

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