Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

"'Statistics conceal as much as they reveal.' Discuss this…

- - - - Statistics inherently simplifies the complex reality through its methodology
  - - - Knowledge is equally shown and hidden in statistics
- - - - Coherence theory
        
        for something to be true it must be logical and coherent with past discoveries
- - - - Numbers can not communicate effectively, the emotions or other factors
        
        For HS, this can conceal a lot as the study of humans require the understanding of emotions (S/A, methodology, language/concept)
    - - The majority or the trend is what is counted as claim in statistics
        
        Anomalies are not counted, or are often ignored. This may be concealing knowledge
        
        The sample of the majority does not represent every single person in the population
    - - Stats itself cannot explain if two events are a result of causality or correlation
    - - Different people could interpret stats differently, thus differences in the knowledge revealed from stats
      - Politicians in HS could use this as a way to fit their narrative
      - People lacking specific AOK knowledge and statistical knowledge could create "faulty" knowledge,
      - Relativism?