If one human on earth would be immortal. The average lifespan of everyone would be forever.

@KnowArt

7 жыл бұрын

Unless you only count the ages of people when they die. Hmm... Maybe more complex than I thought.

@muralin239

7 жыл бұрын

That's why you should consider at median not mean(average).

@RrockCj

7 жыл бұрын

If that was a pun towards the stupif believing in staristics, then it's a damn clever comment

@nielshoogeveen3767

6 жыл бұрын

You have read The Black Swan :D ?

@simonvv1002

5 жыл бұрын

That's an outlier though, they may not be representable for the whole population

Accordion to statistics, most people do not notice when you replace random words with musical instruments...

@jsal7666

4 жыл бұрын

I really really really like your profile pic.

@lukelehman3576

3 жыл бұрын

Yo I laughed out loud

@alecfalicki4583

3 жыл бұрын

I hate you. ❤️

@dannyblaze3853

2 жыл бұрын

@@jsal7666 why?

@broadbandtogod

2 жыл бұрын

Whistleblower 🤣

Who else is watching this with their introduction to statistics college course lol

This guy deserves massive respect, the way he put that together and the effort I saw was mad.

there are 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary and those who don't

@lucyseverine9907

7 жыл бұрын

vulcanfeline And those who didn't expect this to be a ternary joke.

@SuperBhavanishankar

3 жыл бұрын

subcomments made sure that he is not making any nonsense. and then i got the joke that i starting laughing in binary

@jirony7283

3 жыл бұрын

Noice

@bellyh2842

3 жыл бұрын

brilliant

Takeaways: 1) there is great misconception by the public 2) the disjoint between what people perceive and what is reality shows that statistics is a very important subject

Loved the talk! I also noted that this was by far one of the most clean and well thought out presentations in a long time. (Clear, but well supporting slides, getting the message across, etc..)

This makes me feel so much better about having to learn Stats as part of a psychology course :) Helpful

@boburzod

2 жыл бұрын

lol absolutely

@yoo69

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, can you please tell me about your course?

@6kbps

Жыл бұрын

why would you study a useless major 😭😭

@notofuse8549

Жыл бұрын

@@6kbps I'm not sure what part of psychology you think is useless, but you're a fool for believing any of it is.

@amyx.2626

Жыл бұрын

@@6kbps psychology isn't a useless major lol what makes you say that?

I needed a little bit of statistics inspiration as I work on my statistics assignment- thanks!

I’ve never thought about any part of mathematics like Mr. Smith just did. “Statistics is the silence of us.”

There is something wrong with the TED community. Even when a dude talks about an online thingy he made about statistics, the comments get political in a matter of seconds

@byduhlusional

7 жыл бұрын

Archibald Belanus That's because a majority of people don't have a high IQ so they look to argue right away instead of learning.

@LuxiBelle

7 жыл бұрын

Learning? I thought TED is where self-aggrandized geniuses go to jerk themselves off.

@61shirley

7 жыл бұрын

Archibald Belanus what's wrong with that?

@vaibhavgupta20

7 жыл бұрын

made*

@geraldmerkowitz4360

7 жыл бұрын

Vaibhav Gupta Jesus Christ this must be the 100th time I make that mistake and I still can't correct it !!

Watching this to stay motivated for my stats class

I'm totally inspired! Thank you for the presentation

I've always loved statistics.

Delightful is exactly the right word; lovely talk! Alan, thank you for delivering.

This didn't have much with people's ability to "understand and work with numbers", though, at least not as he presented it. People weren't wrong about the stats because they didn't understand the stats. They were wrong about the stats because... they didn't know them. They were just guessing based on observations they had made in every day life. That's not being bad at stats, that's lacking information or making poor observations.

@brendarua01

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with you here. The talk is mislabeled. More accurate would be something like "How the average of peoples' uninformed guesses about things compare to undocumented surveys." There probably are several interesting things about that, but numeric literacy isn't one of them.

This video was very well informing and communicative. I greatly relate to this video and had taken away so much I really thank you for releasing his video and teaching me he importance, value and meaning of statistics. My favorite example ad eye-opening moment was the u16 video at 9:10 where the survey contents were described. Thank you again!!

Thank you - inspiring. Goes to show, anyone can do anything, if they want to and if they find it has a purpose in their lives and in the lives of others

Just done the quiz for my area. Got 109%. Never knew I was so good with numbers ;-)

Jesus this comment section is a cesspool Great presentation!

As an individual who only then realized I was good at numbers AFTER I got out of highschool. I believe it to be an educational issue.

4:36 lol "what could possibly be causing that misperception?" *ahem* media *ahem*

Studying for my Stats mock tomorrow... watching this because it's 'relevant' (yeah procrastination ok) and it's in my town too! What are the odds...

@josephmargaryan

7 жыл бұрын

Do some statistics and find out what the odds are :P

Great talk!

Such an insightful talk. Thank you :)

Great presentation.

Wow. Great talk.

I have a degree in Math & Economics and I hated statistics in college, so much so I had to take it over. However, one of my favorite books in my 20's was a book on quantifying statistics in a meaningful way. Go figure.

@ShahzadHassanBangash

4 жыл бұрын

can you suggedt me a book yo grow my interest in probability, statistics and data science ?

@doroteakasum3012

6 ай бұрын

Please share the title of this book!

@akiraholland457

3 ай бұрын

Whats the name of the book?

amazing, very inspiring talk!

Great talk, thanks.

Great talk. What program is used to show the percentage graphic?

Beautifully explained

I'm becoming a Statistician. You made me love it all over again.

Given the comments on this video you'd think this was RT's video.

This was very refreshing!!

A wonderful speech! Succinct but unforgettable!

was this posted to the TED channel by accident and not the TEDx channel?

Excellent presentaion respected sir. Recive ⚘

In the Japanese survey, urban versus rural is a vague distinction. In the US, I once moved from New York City to Philadelphia, another large American city. My cousin, who lived in New York City his whole life, asked if you needed to boil the water out of the tap in order to drink it, apparently thinking that Philadelphia and Pennsylvania must be a back-woods area with unreliable public utilities. Some people in NYC tend to look at the densely populated areas of New Jersey (one of the most densely populated US states) as being "the countryside" and I think that a similar vague distinction between urban and rural may be true of the people who live in the larger cities of Japan.

I start to understand why ted blocks the comment section sommetimes

@PraveenKumar-ck5ut

6 жыл бұрын

Cios ProductionsWhy Ted does?

Great presentation 😇

The first few stats in the lecture, where were their median counterparts? He said they were averages, and those things can be skewed. I'm curious to see what those graphs would tell

this was great!!! ive been avoiding starting my statistics homework but this is encouraging me to do it! heh

It’s growing on me! I really like it!

What's the software used for the creation of the quiz? it looks amazing. Does anyone know the name of it?

I relate to this on a whole different level

I am studying Geoinformatics but I've never been a fan of statistics. This might help me get started, thanks!

I am watching this to help motivate me to study for my statistics class.

Good presentation, thank you. If you have suggestions for me on other Ted Talks on subjects in the same area, could you please comment under this .

Interesting . Thanks.

Inspirational. Stays was my least favorite class in my entire math degree. Bit now relearning it for fun.

This was a good one.

feeling need to curiousity is necessity of life!

Is the site back up? If so, can anyone link it? Thanks😄

Thank you.

It's wonderful!!!

Great vid!

Hands down. Great spokesmen! But I still hate stats!! :)

2:58 is this why statistics is my favorite part of math??

Using ted app in 2 hour,and that is very good

Awesome!

Please try to give subtitles

awesome.....

Statistics give life to numbers and meaning to life

Yeah new lesson i have learned, thanks

1:56 First thing you need to do when presenting graphs is to label the axes. What is the Y axis on that graph? Percentage of population or Millions?

1- 3:20 2- 6:28 3- 7:05

Perfect! going to send this to my A level statisticians :D

Great.

I want to replicate that gamification of data in my own country! Statistics is definitely fascinating

Statistics only work when you didn't set out to prove your conclusion.

2:01 Which Korea are you referring to?

3:41 Statistics comes from the German word 'stadt" which means not "state" or "community" in English but rather "city". It refers to the data taking of data about city populations in Germany.

@NeurosesGamer

Жыл бұрын

It's originally latin.

@chacmool2581

Жыл бұрын

@@NeurosesGamer If so, please provide the etymology.

@NeurosesGamer

Жыл бұрын

@@chacmool2581 You can't Google?

@chacmool2581

Жыл бұрын

@@NeurosesGamer You asserted something, it is not up to me to verify it or prove it. It is incumbent on you, not me.

@NeurosesGamer

Жыл бұрын

@@chacmool2581 it's not like your comment here is peer reviewed and verified either. just Google it and stop being weird or don't 😂

Proud being a Korean:)

interesting!

Wait... *adjusts glasses* this guy isn't Vsauce!

@oliverkhoo

7 жыл бұрын

your right, it is Vsauce

@lucasmironne3578

7 жыл бұрын

Had the same thing happening to me

I was on holiday in a shopping mall in Denver and was asked if I would like to answer a few statistical questions? My answer was no thank you, can't be bothered, but more importantly, as an English tourist, my knowledge of American products and services is negligible. Doesn't matter, replied the beautiful young lady with the big smile and the pen, you get 10 dollars and it takes about 10 minutes. So I came away 10 dollars richer and the interviewer added one more successful set of statistics to her tally that day. Alan Smith describes statistics as a Science. 'The 'Science' of dealing with data' is what he calls it, and attempts to give it some credibility by aligning it with Mathematics. It mostly depends what you ask, and who you choose to ask, which makes it about as credible as astrology is to an astronomer. Come to think of it your daily Horoscope is probably more scientific.

@jackmaison4209

4 жыл бұрын

Must be a rich interviewer 😱

I like that people started sending it to their politicians.

My Stats Dont Lie Shakira

Interesting

I JUST watched a Ted talk in my stats class today

What possibly could I write an article on statistics? I got this assignment and I'm struggling with the topic

@TheMicnpark

4 жыл бұрын

How dangerous and missleading statistics can be, if not using it right or using it to lie. There are serious cases about statistics, like putting an innocent woman to jail because of "statistical proof" (which was wrong information).

'Love' Statistics? How about UNDERSTANDING and ACCURATELY applying Statistics instead?

why do we need to know the percentage of households with mortgage? is that really matter?

IMO people in London get generally more media airtime/representation than the rest of the UK. So I think that swings what we see as average. London is extreme.

Good

Unfortunately, the quizz is not available for the Arabic world

What about people who know the area they came from better than the area in which they currently reside, or people who know an area relevant to their ethnic or religious culture better than they know their own residential areas?

Saudi figures may be somewhat skewed by how a high proportion of the residents are "guest workers" who aren't counted as really being there. "Officially".

1:45 = The US is #1 yet again!

@iisabzii9444

7 жыл бұрын

JamesThomas *facepalm

This video is not about Statistics. It's about data collected and the public's ignorance.

Our perception is skew by the media which is influenced by politics... And vice-versa. Ence the problem is not the data, the problem is the way the World is presented to us.

the account for 5/100 but make trouble for 25/100. Pretty straightforward

I have an obsession now, thanks alot 2020 🤪

12:49

i am studying statistics. hoping this video will give me the motivation to go on and finish this degree

@ziintle

6 жыл бұрын

oh and it did

@janniefanniebobannie

5 жыл бұрын

Same. And now I'm depressed from the idea I could fail.

@tricky92x

5 жыл бұрын

Khan Academy. I got more out of the 60-something lessons I viewed on Statistics than anything I got out of my professor's lectures and textbook.

@sransmec

4 жыл бұрын

Same. Cheers !

So this is why Koreans are so good at Video Games.

@user-ke6ty5cz8l

6 жыл бұрын

Th3Sh1n1gam1 lol That can be a reason but I think enthusiasm of Korean played a big role, too!

Does anyone else get static at 7:20 and through the video?

My favorite illustration of a misuse of statistics: The average person has (approx.) one testicle.

@mrmyorky5634

4 жыл бұрын

You may not like the above illustration, but you have to admit that it's a true statistic, which then further suggests that it's all a load of bollocks.

I used to call Bingo at an assisted living facility where I worked. The game of Bingo is a statisticians nightmare. Watching the same number come up in 15 different games while another number never gets called, rows of numbers and sections where none get called, having 12 "B"s but only 2 "O"s. Random chance be damned, there are definitely patterns no matter how much you shuffle the balls.