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I don't think it's a question of design. Some ideas in stats are just fundamentally unintuitive. Pedagogy can help mitigate this, but it would take a revolution to fit it into a neat and intuitive framework, like calculus.
Can you give an example of a fundamentally unintuitive idea?
> How much do you understand about statistics and p-values? Is that a well designed survey question? I would expect the use of a specific jargon term in that question to affect the results in a significant way.
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The problem is that convincing yourself that you are smarter than your younger self with opposite views, means that you are right about the politics now, is just a fallacy.
The change doesn't come from thinking one is smarter or dumber, but you simply having much more information to work with. We form extensive opinions and views about the world relatively young, but it's largely based on things we have 0 personal knowledge or experience of. Again I think the internet/social media are perfect examples. Predicting what would happen isn't about being smart or dumb. It's a matter of just n…
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The change doesn't come from thinking one is smarter or dumber, but you simply having much more information to work with. We form extensive opinions and views about the world relatively young, but it's largely based on things we have 0 personal knowledge or experience of. Again I think the internet/social media are perfect examples. Predicting what would happen isn't about being smart or dumb. It's a matter of just n…
This is an universal experience which wouldn't explain the vast difference in worldviews.
Nearly half of all US high school students are below average in reading.