Why does it matter if the Y axis doesn't start at 0? Let's see!
Tag: stem education
Our misplaced faith in smart watches
How smart are smart watches? How meaningful is their health tracking? Have we been fooled by another shiny toy?
Graph crimes. (part 1)
Graphs are fabulous tools for helping understand your own data, and for telling the story of your data to others. Unfortunately, like any means of communication, graphs can be used to tell stories that are... well... closer to fiction than we'd like.
Crows can do stats (and so can you)
When we think of statistics, it has a nasty tendency to stir up school based maths trauma, which can make us feel dumb and slow. It conjures the spectre of monstrously complicated equations, low marks on maths tests, and ideas we can't even imagine being able to understand.
There is no existential threat, ChatGPT is an evolutionary dead end
I think this is the real danger of AI - that we want to believe. Chatbots are so plausible they draw us in, even when we should know better. They give confident, and completely wrong answers, in a way that we are all too happy to accept. They seem to have generated a veneer of respectability and credibility which is wholly unearned.