Numbers that lie to you

1 · Alex Rogozhnikov · Feb. 1, 2019, noon
Either you don’t understand what they mean or how those were cooked. Scientist achieved 92% quality in the problem of … Our system filters out 99% of spam … New vaccine/technique is N% more efficient… This post-informational world becomes progressively more complex each day. We desperately need ways to receive and analyze less information to make decisions, and here they are — simple numbers in presentations that make judgement possible. However, connecting numbers and real things is surpris...