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By Daniella White
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August 23, 2022 — 5.00am
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Australian Catholic University Professor of Mathematics Education Vincent Geiger, who co-authored the research, said more needed to be done to teach students how to critically interpret statistics like those published during the pandemic. /3
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Professor Catherine Bennett, chair of epidemiology at Deakin University, said incorrect interpretations of COVID-19 statistics had led to misinformation through the pandemic.
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One example was misinterpretation of vaccine effectiveness data. /5
Bennett said people should defer to the experts in the field to explain data and not necessarily attempt to draw conclusions from statistics for themselves. /7
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