Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics - Hotel Bar Sessions

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The HBS hosts try to get to the truth of untruths.Mark Twain famously claimed that there are three kinds of untruth: lies, damned lies, and statistics. In an age of widespread misinformation, where it has become considerably more difficult to distinguish between truths and lies, the HBS hosts make an impassioned plea for us to think seriously about what a lie is, what it is not, and why it matters. We consider the whole menagerie of falsehoods: from trifling fibs ("you look great in those pants!") to catastrophic lies ("the only the thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun") to seemingly antiseptic, but no less dissimulating, statistical misrepresentations.This is our last episode of Season 4 and we want to send out a huge THANK YOU to all of our listeners! We'll be taking a couple of weeks off to detox, but Charles, Rick, and Leigh will be back with an exciting new slate of topics and guests for Season 5 starting on July 8!Full episode notes at this link:http://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-60-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics----------------SUPPORT Hotel Bar Sessions on Patreon at this link:https://www.patreon.com/hotelbarsessionsFOLLOW Hotel Bar Sessions podcast on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/hotelbarpodcastFOLLOW Charles F. Peterson on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/c_fpetersonFOLLOW Leigh M. Johnson on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DrLeighMJohnsonFOLLOW Rick Lee on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rickleephilos ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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This episode was published on June 17, 2022.

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The HBS hosts try to get to the truth of untruths.Mark Twain famously claimed that there are three kinds of untruth: lies, damned lies, and statistics. In an age of widespread misinformation, where it has become considerably more difficult to...

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