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Shouldn't believe many of the numbers you read + All the roads that lead to Rome

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Why you shouldn’t believe many of the numbers you read
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg2...-you-read/

EXCERPT: Sample sizes, false positives and the difference between absolute versus relative numbers are among the factors that affect how we interpret statistics. Often, they are impossible to extract from a bare number. It’s a systemic problem....



All the roads that lead to Rome
http://flowingdata.com/2015/12/10/all-th...d-to-rome/

EXCERPT: As the saying goes, “All roads lead to Rome.” Folks at the moovel lab were curious about how true this statement is, so they tested it out. They laid a grid on top of Europe, and then algorithmically found a route from each cell in the grid to Rome, resulting in about half a million routes total. Yep, there seems to be a way from Rome from every point....
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