Statistical Claims in Media
This video presents the same text shown beside it, spoken and on screen. It adds nothing the text does not say.
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Four questions for every reported number: What's the source? What was the sample? What's the base rate? Compared to what?
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"Risk doubled" — from one in a million to two. All four questions, one headline, verdict reversed.
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Relative risk without base rate (350) is the press release's favorite instrument. The four questions take fifteen seconds; skipping them is a choice.