How We’re Fooled By Statistics

Name: How We’re Fooled By Statistics
Description: A short Veritasium video explaining regression to the mean and how ignoring it leads to wrong conclusions about punishment versus reward, medical treatments and sports streaks. It uses the example of flight instructors who believed criticism works better than praise.

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A short Veritasium video explaining regression to the mean and how ignoring it leads to wrong conclusions about punishment versus reward, medical treatments and sports streaks. It uses the example of flight instructors who believed criticism works better than praise.

HN commenters link it as the clearest short explanation of regression to the mean, especially for how it misleads people about feedback and statistics.

4 Hacker News mentions · 2014–2025

Topics

Data science & statistics
Psychology & human behavior

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