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Statistical comfort distorts our politics

6 mins | Dec 11, 2019
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While we are constantly alerted to the possibility of fake news, what about fake data? Wolfgang Münchau writing in the Financial Times highlights how bad data can lure us into believing false truths, and warns against too much reliance on tools like exit polls to give us an answer of what may come next.

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