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A $3.2 billion budget deficit; a 10 per cent improvement in quality of life; 760,000 jobs added this quarter. Confusing, out-of-context, incomplete and flat-out inaccurate statistics no doubt account for a good chunk of our era of information overload – although you wouldn’t want to put a percentage to that. In this video from BBC Ideas in collaboration with the Open University, the UK writer and broadcaster Tim Harford offers three helpful tips for sifting through the noise to find the signal when it comes to investigating statistical claims.
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Ecology and environmental sciences
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Human rights and justice
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Space exploration
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Film and visual culture
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Family life
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Neuroscience
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Archaeology
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Information and communication
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Childhood and adolescence
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