TED Radio Hour Probes Statistical Truth: "Can We Trust The Numbers?"

Alan: Uneducated people are unable to understand that "statistical truth" is truth that applies to "the entire community." 

Instead uneducated people value outlier anecdotes that typically represent the exceptional "truths" of individual people - truths that routinely contradict "community truth"... which is to say truth that contributes most to The Common Good.

"Statistical truth" is "communitarian truth."

"Anecdotal truth" is exceptional "truth" for rugged individualists, "truth" that draws scientifically-unfounded conclusions at the expense of Community.

It is precisely the narrow -- and narrowing -- shortcomings of "anecdotal truths" that cause many Americans to believe, without good reason, that the United States is "exceptional."

TED Radio Hour Probes Statistical Truth: "Can We Trust The Numbers?"

https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/580617765/can-we-trust-the-numbers

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