Statistics as a Tool of Mental Warfare
https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2023-30-1-52-57
Abstract
The article focuses the attention of the civil and professional scientific community on the content, features, and terrible risks of modern mental warfare, conducted using methods and techniques of information and statistical impact on both individual socio-demographic groups and the general population.
The author covers the role, place, and possible use of statistics and statistical data in the process of implementing mental special operations aimed at changing the worldview, breaking down traditional values, and destroying national sovereignty of actual and potential enemies without the use of conventional weapons. The article concludes that there is a need to provide mental security, especially for the younger generations, in which the critical role belongs to the further development of different levels of statistical education and the improvement of statistical literacy of the population, forming the prerequisites for successfully combatting information sabotage aimed at destroying the historical bonds and traditional values of the Russian society.
About the Author
M. V. Karmanov
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Michail V. Karmanov – Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Professor; Professor, Department of Statistics
36, Stremyanny Lane, Moscow, 117997
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Karmanov M.V. Statistics as a Tool of Mental Warfare. Voprosy statistiki. 2023;30(1):52-57. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34023/2313-6383-2023-30-1-52-57
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