# Why you should love statistics

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxExeter
- Speaker: Alan Smith
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_smith_why_you_should_love_statistics)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Think you're good at guessing stats? Guess again. Whether we consider ourselves math people or not, our ability to understand and work with numbers is terribly limited, says data visualization expert Alan Smith. In this delightful talk, Smith explores the mismatch between what we know and what we think we know.

## Lectures

1. [Why you should love statistics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alan_smith_why_you_should_love_statistics/c5eb3885bf59), 13 min (TED's player)