(August 6, 2014 at 8:26 am)Cato Wrote: Back to the critical thinking/data interpretation bit. Example from NPR this morning.
NPR was reporting on Russian hackers collecting a billion password credentials. Part of the report stated that there are 3 billion internet users and concluded that that one third of all internet users had accounts compromised.
The problem with this conclusion shouldn't be hard to grasp. I'm disappointed that NPR made this reasoning mistake.
What a school boy error. They didn't account for people having more than one.
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."