This video was very well informing and communicative. I greatly relate to this video and had taken away so much I really thank you for releasing his video and teaching me he importance, value and meaning of statistics. My favorite example ad eye-opening moment was the u16 video at 9:10 where the survey contents were described. Thank you again!!
Thank you - inspiring. Goes to show, anyone can do anything, if they want to and if they find it has a purpose in their lives and in the lives of others
Our perception is skew by the media which is influenced by politics... And vice-versa. Ence the problem is not the data, the problem is the way the World is presented to us.
Saudi figures may be somewhat skewed by how a high proportion of the residents are "guest workers" who aren't counted as really being there. "Officially".
I used to call Bingo at an assisted living facility where I worked. The game of Bingo is a statisticians nightmare. Watching the same number come up in 15 different games while another number never gets called, rows of numbers and sections where none get called, having 12 "B"s but only 2 "O"s. Random chance be damned, there are definitely patterns no matter how much you shuffle the balls.
What about people who know the area they came from better than the area in which they currently reside, or people who know an area relevant to their ethnic or religious culture better than they know their own residential areas?
What is the need for an adult age person to know the numeracy like school children, the adult have more important things to do. I dont think they need to remember or do the calculation like school children.
a website crashing or a limited quantity of something selling out etc. are pretty poor ways of portraying interest levels. Maybe your code and/or server were terrible.
iiSabzii Perhaps Alex is thinking in a different way from what you are thinking? Perhaps not. Just saying... Before you assume, you should try to understand.
Alex Kim Lol, I figured. Some people should learn how the word "assume" is spelled (ass-u-me). ✌️ It's funny how small-minded some people are in the world.. But I don't blame them.. They're simply uneducated. Don't let anyone's opinion ever bring you down man -Not saying the comment brought you down🤘But just in case... Aha, peace ✌️
There is something wrong with the TED community. Even when a dude talks about an online thingy he made about statistics, the comments get political in a matter of seconds
Takeaways: 1) there is great misconception by the public 2) the disjoint between what people perceive and what is reality shows that statistics is a very important subject
This didn't have much with people's ability to "understand and work with numbers", though, at least not as he presented it. People weren't wrong about the stats because they didn't understand the stats. They were wrong about the stats because... they didn't know them. They were just guessing based on observations they had made in every day life. That's not being bad at stats, that's lacking information or making poor observations.
I agree with you here. The talk is mislabeled. More accurate would be something like "How the average of peoples' uninformed guesses about things compare to undocumented surveys." There probably are several interesting things about that, but numeric literacy isn't one of them.
On the exact same page as you here. This has nothing to do with not being good at numbers but rather a social phenomenon called cultural relativism. In the examples early on in the presentation if the same question about how many people are muslim or how many people are obese were asked in each country, you'd get a different answer and it would be wrong unless you really are studying said field. Then, if the same question is asked within a subset of each one of those countries, then the answer would be different again. Unless this talk is getting at the subjectivity of statistics or estimating values, then I see where it's coming from but the label of the talk doesn't align with the content.
I have a degree in Math & Economics and I hated statistics in college, so much so I had to take it over. However, one of my favorite books in my 20's was a book on quantifying statistics in a meaningful way. Go figure.
Loved the talk! I also noted that this was by far one of the most clean and well thought out presentations in a long time. (Clear, but well supporting slides, getting the message across, etc..)
