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AK47 · 01-19-2010, 05:00 PM

Statistics, usually work on the general public because they are so meaningless on their own. They can be manipulated to show whatever the person or organization wants. Basically there are three levels of fallacy, lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Mark Twain <not direct quote, but general meaning ) I have taken statistics at the graduate level. I know how they can be abused. Don't trust them.
And not everything will be garbage, just enough bias based conjecture to throw off any results. As for polls, they can be plebiscites that use the right wording to get the results one wants. Ask 10 people "How Fast they were Going?". Then ask 10 more "What was your miles per hour?" first one will be 10-15 more than the other in average. It works for everything.

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AK47 Old School Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Here Posts: 6 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Statistics, usually work on the general public because they are so meaningless on their own. They can be manipulated to show whatever the person or organization wants. Basically there are three levels of fallacy, lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Mark Twain <not direct quote, but general meaning ) I have taken statistics at the graduate level. I know how they can be abused. Don't trust them. And not everything will be garbage, just enough bias based conjecture to throw off any results. As for polls, they can be plebiscites that use the right wording to get the results one wants. Ask 10 people "How Fast they were Going?". Then ask 10 more "What was your miles per hour?" first one will be 10-15 more than the other in average. It works for everything.