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Tower@lemm.ee 1 week agoCompletely agree on people not understanding statistics. See: most of the polls showing a slight edge to Harris, but with a 3 to 4 point margin of error, being taken to mean that Harris had it in the bag.
SOMETHING HAPPENING 49 OUT OF 100 TIMES IS STILL VERY LIKELY!
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The craziest part is stats isn’t even complicated.
We could teach it to 6th graders and they’d do fine, same with logic classes.
The point of school isn’t teaching kids to think, it’s teaching them to follow directions, two very different things.
Just look at what we teach them.
Tower@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Primary and secondary schooling is just practice to be good little worker bees. That’s why conservatives view college/tertiary school as iNdOctrINATIOn cEntERS