spot the problem with headlines, how to choose our news,

spot a misleading graph, how stats can be

misleading: paradox vs dilemma:

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1 of 4: misleading headlines:

There is often a disconnect between news headlines and the scientific research they cover. While headlines are designed to catch attention, many studies produce meaningful results when they focus on a narrow, specific question. So how can you figure out what’s a genuine health concern and what’s less conclusive? Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan explain how to read past the headline.

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2 of 4: how to choose our news:

With the advent of the Internet and social media, news is distributed at an incredible rate by an unprecedented number of different media outlets. How do we choose which news to consume? Damon Brown gives the inside scoop on how the opinions and facts (and sometimes non-facts) make their way into the news and how the smart reader can tell them apart.

3 of 4: how to spot a

misleading graph:

When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it has also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way — and as it turns out, there are plenty of ways graphs can mislead and outright manipulate.

4 of 4: how stats can be

misleading:

Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data.

But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the results completely upside down.

This video investigates Simpson’s paradox.


The "paradox" in this problem isn't a classical paradox like the grandfather paradox.

This type of paradox, would be a "Falsidical Paradox" while something like the grandfather paradox would be classified as a "Antimony paradox".

Basically, there are multiple definitions to paradox and a paradox isn't always something that can't be solved. Just a problem that looks impossible to solve.

The paradox here is that the information contradicts itself when viewed from different angles.

That is, looks impossible to get a proper conclusion.

Now lets try to understand:

" What is a Paradox? "
  "Distinct from our opinion"

"  What is a Dilemma? "
    "Two Premises "

Kevin from Vsauce does a great job in explaining both.

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