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Statistics as Rhetoric: The Black Death — Homework
Review this week's three framings of the Black Death mortality estimate before answering.
- 1.State the underlying Black Death mortality estimate without any particular framing.
- 2.Which framing from the lesson maximizes shock, and which trades shock for a longer-term consequence?
- 3.List two questions a careful reader should ask before reacting strongly to a statistic.
- 4.Take the fact "roughly 3 out of 4 students in a class of 28 passed the test" and reframe it two different ways for two different emotional effects.
- 5.In four to six sentences, explain why understanding statistical framing does not mean you should distrust every number you read.
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