What Are The Four Different Ways Of Detecting Mutant Statistics

Mutant Statistics are statistics that started out in a correct manner before people misinterpreted and exaggerated them, therefore causing it to be viewed inaccurately. Advocates and the media often mutate statistics and those who hear it will often accept it and repeat it. Many media groups repeat the statistics they have heard to their audiences, therefore having the audience repeat it to people they know, until it is widely heard of and believed. However, mutant statistics are not always evidence of dishonesty. Sometimes the statistics start out bad, and without the proper research they are continuously carried throughout the believing groups. The mutant statistics are often results from failure of researching factual information. There are four common ways of creating mutant statistics. …show more content…
First is making inappropriate generalizations from a statistic, or jumping to conclusions. For example, we may meet a lazy person who happens to be on government assistance, and just assume that all people on that same assistance are the same. This type of thinking and generalization leads to other faulty conclusions about other instances. Second is a taking a number that means one thing and interpreting it to mean something completely different. For example, the percentage of violent crimes in a given area may seem high but when you take those numbers and compare them to another area based on percentage of population these numbers may not seem so high but in reality they are the same. The media or government will use this tactic to make one place seem worse than others. Third concerns confusion. Confusion transformations involve misunderstanding the meaning of more complex