http://www.metafilter.com/tags/percentage Posts tagged with 'percentage' at MetaFilter. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:23 -0800 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:23 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74594/The%2Dsharks%2Dare%2Djust%2Djealous%2Dof%2Dour%2Dice%2Dcream BBC News is running a weekly ongoing series of articles that describe and illustrate common misconceptions (and manipulations) of statistics using examples from the news and ads.<br> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7542886.stm">Lesson 1: surveys</a>. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7554022.stm">Lesson 2: counting</a>. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7568929.stm">Lesson 3: percentage</a>. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7581120.stm">Lesson 4: averages</a>. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7592579.stm">Lesson 5: causation</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74594 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:50:23 -0800 average BBC causation counting misconception percentage statistics survey Tehanu