Can numbers lie? If you read the above headline and drew a sharp inward breath, well, calm down. Earth is not necessarily about to burst into flames — the statistics are misleading.
Asteroid odds of hitting Earth double
Impactful: New calculations suggest that the large asteroid approaching Earth might now miss our planet completely, and instead collide with the Moon. Glossary
Correlation - A connection between two things in which one thing changes as the other does, but it is not necessarily the case that one thing has caused the other to change.
Causation - The principle that nothing can happen without a cause.
Logical fallacies - Arguments that may sound convincing or true but are actually flawed.
Biased - Unfairly showing dislike or like.
Objective - Relating to external realities rather than internal states. The opposite is subjective. These are important concepts in philosophy but also notoriously hard to clearly define.
Nuanced - Having or characterized by subtle and often appealingly complex qualities, aspects, or distinctions.