Statistical Thoughts

I invite all of you to try to forget major aspects of your life for a moment, including your work, your values, and all the related ethical considerations. Let's also try to define dis-misinformation. One possible way to do it comes from Spitzberg [1]: “[...] any message or a set of messages that represent a meaning complex discrepant from or incompatible with a sender’s intent and/or a relatively informed or expert consensual evidentiary state.” Therefore, sharing any paper that contains even a single improper methodological aspect or unclear communicative content, regardless of the motivations behind the sharing, generates a certain type of dis-misinformation. As alien observers, we must then try to establish varying degrees of impact of dis-misinformation (infodemiological objective). This means methodologically studying both the modes of propagation and the consequences of such propagation, in order to identify the forms of infodemic (information overabundance, which includes d...