23 February 2017

47% DO NOT UNDERSTAND Statistics | Alan Smith

SHOCK: 47% lacked numeracy skills in England - and it's not just England.

Published on Feb 22, 2017
Views: 38,293
Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers is terribly limited, says data visualization expert Alan Smith. In this delightful talk, Smith explores the mismatch between what we know and what we think we know.

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