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Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 ‘reeks of white supremacist patriarchy’
Unfortunately, it is not a click-bait title, and damn, how much I want it to be, as she is a bloody math professor.
“The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. i'm ready to move on with that understanding. who's coming with me?” Brooklyn College professor of math education Laurie Rubel tweeted last week to her roughly 1,200 followers.
Well, let's see...
Links: misleading data
qz.com/580859/the-most-misleading-charts-of-2015-fixed
heap.io/blog/data-stories/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization
datapine.com/blog/misleading-data-visualization-examples
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/bio16610w18/chapter/how-graph-misrepresents-data/
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Table of contents
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0:00 - Introduction
0:16 - Original Tweet
1:18 - Academia Response
2:48 - Awful responses
3:31 - Recommend reading by Laurie
3:41 - checking MathWashing.com
6:28 - checking John Ewing "mathematical intimidation"
7:54 - White Knight with Factory example
8:38 - Zeno's Dichotomy paradox
9:26 - Convergent series
9:45 - Math Joke
11:08 - Laurie double-down
12:33 - Misrepresenting data in Graphs
Math professor claims equation 2+2=4 ‘reeks of white supremacist patriarchy’
Unfortunately, it is not a click-bait title, and damn, how much I want it to be, as she is a bloody math professor.
“The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. i'm ready to move on with that understanding. who's coming with me?” Brooklyn College professor of math education Laurie Rubel tweeted last week to her roughly 1,200 followers.
Well, let's see...
Links: misleading data
qz.com/580859/the-most-misleading-charts-of-2015-fixed
heap.io/blog/data-stories/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization
datapine.com/blog/misleading-data-visualization-examples
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/bio16610w18/chapter/how-graph-misrepresents-data/
=============================
Table of contents
=============================
0:00 - Introduction
0:16 - Original Tweet
1:18 - Academia Response
2:48 - Awful responses
3:31 - Recommend reading by Laurie
3:41 - checking MathWashing.com
6:28 - checking John Ewing "mathematical intimidation"
7:54 - White Knight with Factory example
8:38 - Zeno's Dichotomy paradox
9:26 - Convergent series
9:45 - Math Joke
11:08 - Laurie double-down
12:33 - Misrepresenting data in Graphs
