How statistics lie

Intro

headlines like "1 hour jogging gives you 7 hours of your life" are like pringles, in a funny way. they have no substance, have artificial sweeterners AND make you sick

statistical ignorance is kinda like covid (in this analogy). it spreads through media and an education system that doesn't teach you statistical thinking

some examples:

• 75% true postive rate (marketed as accruacy) without false postive rate
• 8% effectiveness for older people (actually % of older people in the study)
• 91% vaccined; 60% infections vaccined; 45% hospitalized infections vaccined (6.5% of vaccined were infected while 44.5% of unvaccined were infected)

the 5 pillars

these will cover most statical lies in this document

certainty doesn't exist