Comments on: Unemployment, mystified https://twentythirdfloor.co.za/2010/09/18/unemployment-mystified/ Perspectives Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Causes of unemployment in South Africa - Twenty Third Floor https://twentythirdfloor.co.za/2010/09/18/unemployment-mystified/comment-page-1/#comment-16581 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:59:22 +0000 http://twentythirdfloor.co.za/?p=629#comment-16581 […] I’ve blogged before highlighting youth unemployment as a massive problem all of its own. […]

]]> By: Francois Botha https://twentythirdfloor.co.za/2010/09/18/unemployment-mystified/comment-page-1/#comment-16052 Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:52:14 +0000 http://twentythirdfloor.co.za/?p=629#comment-16052 On the point of how statistics can create inaccurate perceptions, take a look at this nerdy TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries.html

I think whenever Bayesian probabilities are used, one should be careful not to assume that the reader has sufficient prior knowledge to interpret the stats correctly.

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