Sermon time, friends. A Tale of Two Narratives. Here's the first one: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/843248676612984832 1/
And here's the second. I've commented on both recently, but I want to pull them together. https://twitter.com/Intuit/status/842833184823758848 2/
What do they have in common?
Take a moment to think about it.
Did you notice? Did you notice when you first saw them?
3/
I think there are degrees. I think marketers/propagandists/clickbaiting scum know what they're doing.
But I don't think the majority of the audience does.
yep
Seems more plausible that no, they really don't get it. Most people really do not have any grasp of statistical inference.
Lemme stop you there, man. You're wrong. Verbal fluency/appearing smart is way way WAY different from this kind of intelligence.
As an ex-math professor, I assure you that even most bright people are very limited in this department.
They can deploy it where it's immediately obvious but they can't understand most implications.
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