Statistics Canada has published a podcast episode entitled Created Equal that discusses the importance of data quality when facing a real-world problem like racism. It runs for 26 minutes.
In this episode, we turn a critical eye to the ways that cognitive bias risks perpetuating systemic racism. Created Equal discusses the importance of data quality when facing a real-world problem like racism. Many students enter the classroom thinking statistics are infallible, but data can be manipulated when we forget to look at the methodology behind the curtain. Created Equal is an assessment of the objectivity of statistics with real-life examples that speak to the dangers of selection bias and framing bias.