You might also like to take a look at Stephen K. Campbell's Flaws and
Fallacies in Statistical Thinking, Dover Publications, 2004. It is less
social studies-oriented and more focused on the sorts of error in
interpretation reporting that I mentioned in my comments.
Cheers
Steve
2008/7/5 Jens
Jens,
Excellent point, and some great responses already.
It seems to me there was a soul/RB song out at least 20 years ago
with the title Compared to What? Good song, too.
I'll only add that people commit the fallacy of not adding a
comparative reference when they say that an interaction or
Feeling free to blatantly point to my own take on Compared to What?,
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080703/compared-to-what/. I understand
this concept's root in information design, but worry about the
supposed fact that not only many designs, but rather news sources
fail in answering that question.
Jens,
Interesting article. I've posted a (rather lengthy, sorry) comment, but was
very happy to read your post.
Steve
2008/7/4 Jens Meiert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Feeling free to blatantly point to my own take on Compared to What?,
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080703/compared-to-what/. I
This is a very good issue Jens. One of the issues that happens
everyday is that someone on a product team will refer to poor
usability, but not highlight what the comparison is for this judgment
-- is it poor relative to the last version, user expectations, the
vice president's opinion, the major
