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Educating Twitter: Misleading Stats

Educating Twitter: Misleading Stats

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Paul White
Dec 12, 2023
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Lying and misleading are not the same thing.

But, then again, they kind of are.

An outright lie is bold. Think of Pete Rose and his infamous “I did NOT bet on baseball.” It’s pure fabrication, told sometimes even when the teller suspects that the listeners knows it’s a lie.

Misleading isn’t the same. There’s no false information passing from one person to …

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