Beyond a certain size, we lose the ability to intuitively understand numbers.

Examples? Sure:

1. how many people misunderatood the scale of the undertaking of trying to find mh370 in the ocean without any detailed guidance
2. how far billionaires are from the average person (i once argued that just having a comfortable home and a computer or cellphone put one comfortably in the top earners in the world - people dont understand the sheer scale of poverty or income inequality as it applies to the global situation)
3. how only the top ~100 atp/ wta tennis players actually make enough to comfortably cover basic tour costs
4. how absolutely vast the universe is. Voyager is slightly over a billion km from the earth rn, and it only means it has travelled a light day from the time it was launched

Feel free to add your own

How many of you could fully explain how a p value is calculated (this may be the wrong sub to put this in, but I’ll let my point stand)?

How much do you understand about statistics and p-values

I could tell you how it’s used. I’d have to look up how to calculate it these days. I could tell you that’s a shitty way to get to 67% of something using an ambiguous question that a high schooler could pick apart.

Shitty questions in, shitty conclusions out 🤷‍♂️

If that many admit it, just imagine how many more can’t or won’t.

It must be brutal to be the subject of an article you cant even understand the title of

Oh, and over 90% of ‘facts’ used in an argument are simply made up.