And even the headline gets it wrong. They asked 1,000 people, over half of whom say they lacked basic statistical understanding.
The first question was:
“How much do you understand about statistics and p-values?”
not probability, p-values.
I had to look up p-values to check it meant what I thought it did to avoid making a fool of myself in this comment. I knew I was probably right, but possibly wrong.
The same goes for my assumption that this survey was engineered to deliver a bad result.
Why? because it makes it easier to get funding for a the author's solution to the problem. Again, probably right, possibly wrong.
Statistics, like math, is a language, first learn the vocabulary, then you can judge the meaning
The first question was: “How much do you understand about statistics and p-values?”
not probability, p-values.
I had to look up p-values to check it meant what I thought it did to avoid making a fool of myself in this comment. I knew I was probably right, but possibly wrong.
The same goes for my assumption that this survey was engineered to deliver a bad result. Why? because it makes it easier to get funding for a the author's solution to the problem. Again, probably right, possibly wrong.
Statistics, like math, is a language, first learn the vocabulary, then you can judge the meaning