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Bad numbers in the news: How to spot them, and how to stop them

16 June 2017

Misleading charts, slippery slope arguments, wrong conclusions. Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter highlighted his concerns on how numbers, risks and evidence are used in the media today.

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