More or Less: Behind the Stats
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC Radio 4
WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?
9 minutes Posted Nov 8, 2013 at 10:00 pm.
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To what degree do our personal opinions cloud our judgement? Yale University researchers have attempted to detect and measure how our political beliefs affect our ability to make rational decisions. The study suggests that our ability to do maths plummets when we are looking at data which clashes with our worldview. Ruth Alexander and Ben Carter consider Professor Dan Kahan's findings. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.