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Comparative studies often used to dress ideology as facts

Original: Enjeux : études comparatives pour justifier une décision # economie # politique -> stratégie tr-s utilisée par les idéol

A commentary circulating online warns that comparative studies are frequently used in economics and politics to justify decisions, a strategy ideologues use to make their theses look like hard statistics. The author points readers to Stephen K. Campbell's book 'Flaws and Fallacies in Statistical Thinking' as a guide to spotting such misleading reasoning.

Why now: Readers are discussing how statistics and comparative studies can be manipulated to legitimize political and economic agendas.

Stephen K. Campbell

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• Enjeux : études comparatives pour justifier une décision # economie # politique -> stratégie tr-s utilisée par les idéologues pour faire passer leurs thèses pour des faits chiffrés. # books # bookstodon Flaws and fallacies in # statistical thinking by S. K. Campbell : https://… · cobrate · 2

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