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Avoiding Misleading Analysis
Recognise and avoid the common ways analysis misleads.
Inside this lesson
- Identify visual distortions like truncated axes and cherry-picked ranges
- Distinguish between percentage points and relative percent change
- Recognize logical fallacies such as correlation-as-causation and survivorship bias
- Understand base-rate neglect and the conceptual risk of p-hacking
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