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Yes, feel free to disagree with me but you'll never have that smug complacency of knowing what it's like to be right
Worked with a younger fellow with big education , he had studied statistics and worked in public adm. , he told me “give me the numbers and I will make ‘em show whatever you want” .....
For example, a case being made earlier in the pandemic that women were suffer g more than men led with the statistic “39% of cases were female” duh yeah so 61% were male then!
This pandemic has provided a huge case study with use of statistics, especially by the media.
Nowadays, are you really certain that 61% are men?
Nowadays, are you really certain that 61% are men?
Not only media, obviously politicians use selective reading of statistics too.
Except he who can't read.
Very true... My argument in favour of Brexit was that we have enough bigots of our own and do not need to import more from Eastern Europe.Went down worse than the proverbial lead balloon ..It's not even the numbers sometimes.... Many refuse to accept ANY narrative that contradicts their own... Brexit, anybody??
Didn't the Sioux have five?so what has happened that we are back to only 2 genders?