Literacy
Why anecdotes persuade but do not prove
A single vivid story carries a hidden sample of one — and often a sample that survived a filter the listener never sees.
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Literacy
Literacy teaches the skills for evaluating evidence directly: distinguishing correlation from cause, reading confidence intervals, converting relative risk into absolute terms, spotting undeclared conflicts, and recognizing when a sample is too small. Examples come from real published papers. For anyone wanting to check a health claim independently.
Practical tools for judging evidence: relative versus absolute risk, confidence intervals, control groups, disclosures, and wording that hides weak data.
Literacy
Why correlation is not causation in headlines
Headlines turn associations into causes because causes read better — three habits of mind restore the distinction.
Literacy
How to read a scientific paper in twenty minutes
A three-pass strategy — abstract, figures, limitations — extracts most of a paper's value before the methods section slows a reader down.