The ignorant cannot be given fact pills. We’d better deal with it
We are ignorant and we are wrong and even pathologically ignorant. Or perhaps, following Dan Davies, we can’t do percentages. Either way, the Royal Statistical Society poll is bracingly depressing. I occasionally talk about the “deficit model of ignorance”. In the light of the poll, I thought I’d set it out more clearly. The deficit…
Read More The ignorant cannot be given fact pills. We’d better deal with it