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Disturbing new statistics released by a Texas state agency revealed that more than 100 children aged 17 and younger – including some as young as 11 – traveled out of state to receive abortions ...
As AI has made fake content much easier to produce, a growing number of American teenagers say they are being misled by AI-generated photos, videos or other content on the internet, a new study shows.
Statistics, when used in a misleading fashion, can trick the casual observer into believing something other than what the data shows. That is, a misuse of statistics occurs when a statistical argument asserts a falsehood. In some cases, the misuse may be accidental. In others, it is purposeful and for the gain of the perpetrator.
The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From this reasoning, a false conclusion is inferred. [1] This fallacy is the philosophical or rhetorical application of the multiple comparisons problem (in statistics) and apophenia (in cognitive ...
The spine of federal data has always been the decennial census, the latest edition of which is being conducted this year. The kind of cross-section the census provides to officials at every level is impossible to beat, said Joe Salvo, the director of the population division in New York City’s Department of City Planning: “We may complain about the census, its warts and so on.
If they are not cautious, researchers using data mining techniques can be easily misled by these results. The term p-hacking (in reference to p -values ) was coined in a 2014 paper by the three researchers behind the blog Data Colada , which has been focusing on uncovering such problems in social sciences research.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Allstate created the "world's largest driving behavior database," with data on more than 45 million Americans, by paying mobile app developers millions of ...
In statistics, a misleading graph, also known as a distorted graph, is a graph that misrepresents data, constituting a misuse of statistics and with the result that an incorrect conclusion may be derived from it. Graphs may be misleading by being excessively complex or poorly constructed.