Fine print was great—but as I railed against: the presentation was misleading, constant updates clickbait, the decimal point faux scientism.https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/797187322295029760 …
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Readers failed to grasp that a 70% chance isn't a pass on a test, it's 2-to-1 odds & there's only 1 universe to test those odds in
(for clarity, I know *you* understand this - I'm just unsure how 538 could have done differently for a non-stats audience)
basic principle of effective communication is that if your ideas weren't understood correctly, it's on you, not them
Short of 538 offering all their readers a Prob 101 course, I think you're not going to have proper understanding
maybe stick to plain tabular data for stat experts and don't use visualizations that can be misread by the untrained
or use visualizations that better reflect nuances like margins of error, uncertainty
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