Stats must be compulsory for all people.
Never underestimate how little history or math people understand. The latter isn't super dangerous except when they need to reason statistically, but the former accounts for a lot of people's strongest political opinions.
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Statically speaking most people don’t reason with statistics, majority of people reason with anecdotal examples or information. What I learnt from reading Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
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Most people aren’t interested in facts, they simply defend what they believe.
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Paul should be the national poet
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Given a choice, I'd probably have the first year of a college degree program only about objective history
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No such thing as objective history. Every event can be viewed in polar opposite ways with lots of people on both sides.
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Isn’t it true that about 40% of millennials and younger don’t know what Auschwitz is? Unreal.
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American.
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History can be understood and still damaging if it's a factually incorrect account.
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Reasoning statistically is more useful, not often, than most people realise. Understanding base rates might help in forming political outcomes. Also, having history for context would help with framing.
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