A few days ago, I blogged about TED. Today, I saw one presentation, that convinced me, I know not that much about statistics as I thought I did. (Mind you, I have a Masters Degree in Computer Sciences and, prior to that, I studied Latin-Mathematics).
Watch Peter Donnelly on how juries are fooled by statistics and I’m sure only a few of us will get his answers right.
If you’re like me, happy without a TV and you don’t like most of the videos on YouTube, this might be a nice tip: on TED you can find 150+ recordings of the presentations given by some of the greatest minds of our times during the Technology, Entertainment and Design conferences.
Most of them are only 18 minutes long, so even with a 21th century attention span disorder, you can sit through these in one session.
I haven’t seen all of them – at the rate I’m going that won’t take long – but for now I really liked John Maeda on the simple life, Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes, Helen Fisher tells us why we love, cheat and especially Dan Dennett on dangerous memes.
By the way, most of them are not IT related… but I guess that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. :icon_wink: