Educator Johnson: Improbable is unreliable, bias [sic]
Educator Naomi Johnson concludes that the Improbable.com website — and in particular a statistics article called “Who Will Win the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election?”, written by Eric Schulman and Daniel Debowy — is “unreliable, bias[sic] and has no authenticity.”
Johnson says “We do not know who the authors are.” Eric Schulman, unknown author, is surprised and impressed. In an inspired-by-Johnson essay he concludes:
My advice to educators using the web is to be careful in evaluating the information you find. Some pages that look reliable are not. And others that look strange may end up, upon closer look, being reliable, unbiased, and authentic.
To read Naomi Johnson’s colorful critique, click on the image of it, below:
