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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks, Joseph for your interesting reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What would you say of this example of an analysis
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">by leading UK statistician
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">of miscommunications we are massively exposed to in the form of “Number
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">theatre</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">BBC One - The Andrew Marr Show, 10/05/2020, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter: Here is the whole ten minutes of</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><a href="https://twitter.com/d_spiegel">@d_spiegel</a> talking such refreshing sense about COVID19, numbers and risk:</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black">
</span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:blue"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08csg28">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08csg28</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Fis <fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es> on behalf of Joseph Brenner <joe.brenner@bluewin.ch><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 11 May 2020 at 10:36<br>
<b>To: </b>"fis@listas.unizar.es" <fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Fis] Discommunication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Greetings and best wishes for the health and safety of all.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">The subject of discommunication, defined as an attempt to pervert the process of communication of information itself, was implicit in our previous
discussion. The term is not used rigorously. Miscommunication conveys the same idea as misinformation, failure in communication, for any reason. Discommunication should convey the additional idea of intent to mislead,
<i>etc. </i></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode",sans-serif">Discommunication seems to me to refer more directly than in the disinformation case to the consequences for the sender as well as receiver. In popular
language, one talks about people who “can’t stop lying” or who “lie so much they no longer can discern truth from falsehood”. One, of many, current examples of discommunication,
<i>grandeur nature</i>, supports this interpretation.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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