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How to confuse with statistics or: the use and misuse of conditional probabilities

The article shows by various examples how consumers of statistical information may be confused when this information is presented in terms of conditional probabilities. It also shows how this confusion helps others to lie with statistics, and it suggests how either confusion or lies can be avoided by using alternative modes of conveying statistical information.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Technical Report ; No. 2004,35

Subject
Statistische Methode
Manipulation
Theorie
Bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeiten

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gigerenzer, Gerd
Krämer, Walter
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen
(where)
Dortmund
(when)
2004

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Gigerenzer, Gerd
  • Krämer, Walter
  • Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen

Time of origin

  • 2004

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