Becoming the statistic

By: Andrew Donaldson

Outlets: West Virginia Watch

Published: January 22, 2026

Words: 934

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 4 days ago

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We live in a statistics dominated world.

Data has become the currency of the globalized digitally integrated realm, and trying to understand that data in the concise, short, visual format more and more people demand on their platforms means statistics. Lots of them.

Dominated by algorithms — fancy terms for statistics and data computations — that tailor the information and data we are all inhaling digitally. Health care, politics, education, anything involving complex issues …

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