# How statistics can be misleading

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Mark Liddell
- Year: 2016
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Economics, Society and politics, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/mark_liddell_how_statistics_can_be_misleading)
- 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: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Statistics are persuasive. So much so that people, organizations, and whole countries base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it that can turn the results completely upside down. Mark Liddell investigates Simpson's paradox. \[Directed by Mike Foster and Tom Sanders, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [How statistics can be misleading](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/mark_liddell_how_statistics_can_be_misleading/774971d0f230), 5 min (TED's player)