Statistics & Data Science · Data Literacy & Statistical Misuse
A topic within Data Literacy & Statistical Misuse, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Statistics & Data Science.
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The best stats you've ever seen
Hans Rosling (TED) · 2007
Shows with animated development data that the rich-world / third-world split stopped describing reality decades ago, and that aggregate categories…
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
John P. A. Ioannidis · 2005
Shows that under realistic assumptions about power, bias and prior probability, most published positive findings will not replicate.
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Hans Rosling (TED)
Shows with animated development data that the rich-world / third-world split stopped describing reality decades ago, and that aggregate categories hide the within-country variation that matters.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Carl T. Bergstrom & Jevin D. West
A free university course teaching readers to spot the specific statistical and visual tricks - misleading axes, cherry-picked baselines, spurious correlations - that make quantitative claims look more rigorous than they are.
link checked 17 Sept 2026John P. A. Ioannidis
Shows that under realistic assumptions about power, bias and prior probability, most published positive findings will not replicate.
6 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026