Applied Mathematics

Learn Data Literacy

How to read a chart or a headline somebody else made and find the place where it misleads: truncated axes, percentage points, relative risk, chart geometry, rates versus counts, survivorship, cherry-picked windows, regression to the mean, Goodhart's law, false precision, error bars, provenance, missing denominators, averages of averages, pie charts, absent comparisons, and working a headline back to its study. Scoped against statistics, probability and modeling, which own correlation versus causation, the base-rate fallacy and extrapolation respectively.

Free to start · adaptive placement finds your level · reviews timed so it stays learned.

What you'll learn

18 lessons in Data Literacy

Truncated axesPercent vs percentage pointAbsolute vs relative riskArea versus length in chartsCounts versus ratesSurvivorship biasCherry-picked windowsRegression to the meanGoodhart's lawFalse precisionError barsData provenanceThe missing denominatorAverages of averagesReading pie chartsThe unstated comparisonFrom headline to studyAuditing a claim
How Erudia teaches

Built to be understood — and remembered.

Every idea is taught with motivation and a worked example before the drills, and an FSRS spaced-repetition engine schedules each review for the moment just before you'd forget it. A short placement check finds what you already know, so you start Data Literacy exactly where it's useful.

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