The irresponsible @Guardian WhatsApp story & today have in common: failed risk communication. Data journalism failed before the election.
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We don't communicate risk properly. Terrorism is horrible, but not communicating the risk well leads people to support dangerous responses.
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Vaccines have side effects; not communicating that properly will lead to less vaccination (which is the way the Guardian piece is wrong).
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But you can also undercommunicate risk & odds. Before the election, poorly explained probability models w/ shaky assumptions misled people.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Stefano Zanero
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@Guardian retraction of its irresponsible WhatsApp story despite call from some of world's top cryptographers.https://twitter.com/raistolo/status/823161843472625664 …zeynep tufekci added,
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Worse, reporting every usability trade-off (which helps keeps users secure) in such alarmist terms hurts coverage of important weaknesses.
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