Explain to your family that to properly evaluate homeopathy your entire family needs to understand statistics. Give your parents some books on statistics and whenever they bug you to do something about homeopathy ask how much progress they have made with the stats books. Start numerous conversations with your parents about statistics and work statistics into all the conversations they have with you. When they want to watch TV suggest instead they watch a YouTube stats video. Eventually, work out a truce.
This is funny, but I worry that they will learn just enough pseudo-statistics to begin using it in their arguments instead of learning enough to change their minds.
Explain to your family that to properly evaluate homeopathy your entire family needs to understand statistics. Give your parents some books on statistics and whenever they bug you to do something about homeopathy ask how much progress they have made with the stats books. Start numerous conversations with your parents about statistics and work statistics into all the conversations they have with you. When they want to watch TV suggest instead they watch a YouTube stats video. Eventually, work out a truce.
This is funny, but I worry that they will learn just enough pseudo-statistics to begin using it in their arguments instead of learning enough to change their minds.
Maybe, at some point. I can certainly see how things can go downhill here, but then again, they are anyway.
Have you ever changed someone’s mind this way? (Seriously asking, I haven’t tried that.)
No, but the goal wouldn’t be to change someone’s mind. It would be to get them to stop bugging you.