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Marley Felder

Mr. Spiller

Stats Advanced

22 August 2017

TED Talk: Why You Should Love Statistics

After watching Alan Smiths TED talk about using statistics to illustrate the massive

difference between perception and reality in many areas of life, there are a few key takeaways

that came to mind. The first is that a survey that measured levels of numeracy in the population

and they were shocked to find Out of every 100 working age adults 47 lacked level 1 numeracy

skills. Next it is that we risk hurting people inadvertently into 1 or 2 categories, there are 2 kinds

of people, those that can do numbers and the people who cant. And lastly it is that we can be

blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness and that has enormous repercussions.

Overall in the TED Talk, Alan Smith presents numbers in ways that everyone can understand.