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3 reasons why people fall for politicians' lies about statistics

  • Written by Mack Clayton Shelley, II, University Professor of Political Science, Statistics, and School of Education, and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Iowa State University
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Why do people make such poor decisions about politics? Why are they so often distracted by lies, irrelevant alternatives and specious arguments?

Politicians use and abuse statistics and fabricate when it suits their purposes. Contemporary examples of either deliberate or inadvertent misuse of data...

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