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What's a true fact that is so misleading it's borderline misinformation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by 6mementomori@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?

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[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

This is such a good example for how statistics are often misinterpreted without any fault of the statistics itself.

It reminds me of when they looked at fighter jets to decide which parts to reinforce. So they examined which parts had the most bullet holes and came up with this statistic:

If some of you don't knew about this yet, I let you decide why this effect is called "survivorship bias". :D

There needs to be more education about how statistics need to be looked at in the correct context.