Jim Stein
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85 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2019
last heard Dec 2019
Jim Stein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What do you see as the pros and cons of social media?
You know, one of the pernicious things that happened was that the mass murderer Dylan Roof was influenced by misleading charts.
And you could maybe discuss that a little.
Yeah, well, that just brings up one of the things that you said, that is that charts tend to reinforce confirmation bias.
What is self-selection?
You discuss this in the book.
You have a nice list of principles you use for spreading information.
I'm sure the listeners would enjoy hearing about some of the ones you consider most important.
I think you make a valuable point when you say that a chart can be made worse or better depending upon its ability to strike a balance between oversimplifying reality and obscuring it with too much detail.
What are nominal values and real values, and what roles do they play in constructing a chart?
No, I enjoyed your description of Brett Stevens's column on climate change and how charts could be used on this contentious topic to clarify the important points.
You know, I think that when when you're talking about climate change, of course.
I feel that I've seen it in Los Angeles over, you know, I've lived in Los Angeles for half a century, and it's gotten warmer, it's gotten stickier, and I certainly feel that a lot of people that I know feel this way, but...
On the other hand, I'm wondering whether or not that it's just local and I'm not really interpreting the data correctly.
I'm in Los Angeles, it's November, and the temperature was in the 90s yesterday.
go.
So there you are.
Yeah, indeed they can.
You know, Alberto, it's been a very, very interesting interview.
And as far as I'm concerned, I'm happy to recommend How Charts Lie to everyone who's listening, and I hope they read it.
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