How to Lie With Math

The title maybe a little misleading. This is about how we delude ourselves into adopting information as factual becuase it is presented using real math. Math is extremely important and valuable and a necessity for most sciences. However, like any other tool, math can give the illusion of knowledge while actually tricking us into believing things that are not correct. We primarily focus on averages and how problematic this concept can be, but extrapolate this into other forms of math that can be used to lie and mislead even the ones who are executing the computations.

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Links and References:

1. https://www.toddrose.com/endofaverage
2. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/on-average/
3. https://www.anecdote.com/2023/03/179-there-is-no-average/
4. https://austraffic.com.au/aba/us-air-force-finds-averages-can-kill

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