Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You've got it.
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Even though there were a bigger number of people getting better in the strawberry group...
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Right.
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Now, why am I talking to you about this?
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Well, this question, or a very similar one, has been put to people by researchers at Yale University in the United States, people whose numeracy they'd already tested, by the way.
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Now, this question is a bit tricky, and the version of the question they asked was even trickier.
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Dan Kahan, the professor behind the experiment, says on average just four in ten people got the question right.
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So the people who scored well in other number tests the researchers had devised for them scored the best in this test.
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Not surprising, really.
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But that's not where the story ends.
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Well, the researchers then asked another question.
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So before I explain that, let me ask you another question, Ruth.
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OK.
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Two groups take a test, a group of English women and a group of French women.
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200 of the English women pass and 100 fail.
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80 of the French women pass and 20 fail.
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So who are the cleverest, English or French women?
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OK, so you made no attempt to think through the numbers at all.
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You just voiced your opinion and you are wrong.
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Now, obviously, you're just joking around, but this is exactly what the researchers discovered people do.
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