Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "3 ways to spot a bad statistic | Mona Chalabi" video.

  1. Why can't we require people who present statistics to provide the source information? A footnote at the bottom could give the name of the study or paper, where it was published, how it was funded. If that's too much, the note could provide a url to the information. Without such transparency, we should be highly skeptical of the validity and soundness of the numbers and should suspect the motives of the presenter. I realize that one also needs some literacy in basic statistics. But at least it's a start. Then who knows what's next? Error bars? Variation and deviation? Significance? Oh, be still my heart!
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  2. Arthur, personally I'm fine with it. Humor is a good way to break the ice and it makes a solid point. But it is a bit edgy. I have a hard time imagining my stats and math professors doing something like that in class lolol
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  3. ok. That's funny. Did he come out in a banana hammock?
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  4. try watching the talk instead of feeding your triggers
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  5. with a rounding error greater than many of our annual incomes. We live in the zip code chump change lol
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  6. Grow up, Toni the Tigger
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