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Discuss some of the ways in which statistics can be used or misused in different Areas of Knowledge to assist and mislead us, and how we can determine whether to accept the statistical evidence that is presented to us.
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3. Statistics can be very helpful in providing a powerful interpretation of reality but also can be used to distort our understanding. Discuss some of the ways in which statistics can be used or misused in different Areas of Knowledge to assist and mislead us, and how we can determine whether to accept the statistical evidence that is presented to us. In this essay I shall discuss under what circumstances statistics can be a useful tool that helps us understand things easier as well as how it can be misleading in different Areas of Knowledge. Furthermore, I will try to demonstrate how statistics affect the Ways of Knowing and hope to show that there is pretty much of both use and abuse of them in our everyday life. The old myth about storks bringing the babies has been repeated so many times that there has to be something more to it -...
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