Chocolate Makes You Smarter, So You Stop Reading BBC News
Chocolate Makes You Smarter, So You Stop Reading BBC NewsIt’s not really about chocolate, it’s about statistics.
Probability inversion is one of the nastiest mistakes one can do handling the results of a statistical analysis, invalidating to the roots the interpretation of the data to the point that the whole work effectively becomes useless. Unfortunately, it is a very common entertainment for journalists reporting scientific results, and oftentimes scientists themselves fall in the trap.
Tommaso Dorigo. Science 2.0.