Believe you're good at thinking statistics? Think once again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and deal with numbers is terribly restricted, states information visualization specialist Alan Smith. In this wonderful talk, Smith explores the mismatch between what we understand and exactly what we think we understand.
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