Base Rate Fallacy & Media Disinformation

Yassine Meskhout

Apr 25, 2020

Filed under "I hate everyone", there are now media reporting on how the number of calls to poison control has spiked after Trump's bonkers comments on using disinfectants to cure COVID-19.

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