This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, September 16, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Reporters on deadline and policy makers balancing interests don't always have the skills necessary

to evaluate the quality of data and the use and abuse of that data.

Trevor Butterworth is Director of Sense about Science USA and an editor at stats.org.

For the most recent edition of Cato Connects, we discussed good science

and his group's effort to improve data analysis for the public good.

We want to see a debate about evidence. We want to see evidence in the public realm. We want to

equip people with evidence. We want to equip people with the tools to

understand evidence. And then what they do but with that is really their business but we want to start

with with the basics with improving scientific and statistical literacy in

society and when people make claims

whether they be in government or business or in the media that people are empowered to

ask the see the evidence behind those claims.

As we were talking before we started here live, the headline, thousands of planes land

safely is not one you're likely to see and that's also true of science research

something that is novel something that is new is something that we are more

likely to see.

Absolutely there was a great line by is something that we are more likely to see.

Absolutely.

There was a great line by an English journalist Peragon Weston who once said,

what are more true the advertisements in the newspapers

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