August 12, 2013

The bad science of TED



I love TED talks but some of their science is terrible.

Mark Killingsworth claims to be a scientist but does not play by the rules of science.

I am giving him a scientific yellow card at 6:06. Where are the errors bars? Additionally, the truncated range of the Y-axis is misleading.

PS Despite his misleading visualization, his study is a great example of leveraging the power of the Internet to change the nature of psychology data collection.

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