One of the high points of my summer was talking to Kaiser Fung, data snake charmer and best selling author of Numbersense. You can listen to my three-part podcast on my other channel. Fung skewered AI algorithms and gave us some lessons in bad statistical reasoning.
Kaiser also runs a really fun blog on bad infographics, known as Junk Charts.
Here’s a good example of Fung’s eye for the misuses of data as he comes to a completely different conclusion on CEO pay. No, an average is a bad statistic for deciding that CEO pay is dropping. In fact, Fung shows just the opposite: CEO pay is rising.