The double whammy of election-fraud hysteria and antivax hysteria has made it really clear that way too many Americans are statistically illiterate. They just have no ability to recognize obvious problems with numbers people feed them.
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Not talking about the people spreading the nonsense (although plenty of them are not numerate, or at least are pretending not to be). I'm talking about the people consuming the nonsense and taking it as gospel.
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The Internet has empowered people to 'do the research' but most people have about as much understanding of methodology as a witch-hunter from Salem
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