How To Lie With Statistics Pt. 3

Posted by Klarissa Hudson in Statistics - Miles - C on

​Group Members Present: Symone, Lloyd, & Klarissa
Pages Read: 91 - 142
Pages For Next Week: None

Podcast Points:
  1. What is a semi-attached figure?
    1. Figure that is related to the topic but there is information missing from the equation.
  2. What does post hoc mean?
    1. Making a unwarranted conclusion that has no real connection with the situation at hand.
  3. List several kinds of correlation that might lead to post hoc reasoning.
    1. Jobs after college vs. no college
    2. Getting lice vs. being healthy
  4. Correlation vs. Causation
  5. Lurking Variables
  6. Shading Map
  7. Susie Brown
  8. "It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so." - Artemus Ward
How To Lie With Statistics pt. 3

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