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49 Out of 50 Liberals Don't Understand Statistics
Political Castaway ^ | 3/11/09 | Selkirk

Posted on 03/11/2009 11:05:35 AM PDT by Selkirk

Remember Mitch Snyder? For those of you who don't, he was a tireless advocate of the homeless who had his 15 minutes in the '80's for going on hunger strikes to raise the national level of attention to the plight of the homeless. He ran the Community for Creative Non-Violence, which operated a shelter that catered to the needs of a great number of homeless persons in the District of Columbia. For a time, he was very popular for the principled stand that he took on behalf of the homeless.

Unfortunately, that's not the only thing he was known for. For all the things he did that benefited the cause, he also undermined it considerably by creating statistics designed to illustrate his purpose but could not withstand even the slightest scrutiny. One of his best-known instances of hyperbole occurred when he stated that 45 homeless people die every second in the U.S. While he may very have simply misspoke (although he never backed down from the statement), even when you analyze the possibility that he meant that a single homeless person dies every 45 seconds, the position doesn't withstand scrutiny. You see, at that death rate, the problem of homelessness is no longer a problem in just a few months.

So now what are Mitch Snyder's successors doing? Making up their own statistics. Yesterday's headline said, "Report: 1 in 50 U.S. Children Face Homelessness."

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.politicalcastaway.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: homeless; hyperbole; mitchsnyder; statistics

1 posted on 03/11/2009 11:05:35 AM PDT by Selkirk
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To: Selkirk

Wow — that’s over 31 million homeless dying every year in the United States. If that were true, the problem of homeless in America would be solved in a year or two. (And we would need to get a whole new population for this country by the time the 2020 census rolled around.)


2 posted on 03/11/2009 11:09:18 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: Selkirk

When even CNN tears apart a study (I saw this yesterday getting snickers-no joke) you know its BS.


3 posted on 03/11/2009 11:09:34 AM PDT by icwhatudo (The Dow is down nearly 6,000 points since democrats took back congress.)
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To: Selkirk

40 out of 50 liberals don’t understand anything.


4 posted on 03/11/2009 11:09:38 AM PDT by fml
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To: Selkirk

5/4ths of high school students can’t do fractions:)


5 posted on 03/11/2009 11:10:58 AM PDT by madamemayhem (proper grammar and spelling please, boys and girls.)
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To: fml

Six out of five coeds is a victim of date rape.


6 posted on 03/11/2009 11:11:28 AM PDT by RobRoy
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To: Selkirk

4/3rds or americans don’t understand fractions!


7 posted on 03/11/2009 11:11:32 AM PDT by Holicheese (Gimme Gimme Gimme!)
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To: Selkirk

And 78.7% of statistics are made up on the spot.


8 posted on 03/11/2009 11:15:41 AM PDT by Old Sarge ("Remember, remember, the Fourth of November, the Socialist treason and plot...")
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To: madamemayhem

50 Out of 49 Liberals Don’t Understand Statistics


9 posted on 03/11/2009 11:15:46 AM PDT by GBA
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To: RobRoy

lol, I hit the 0 not the 9. Your reply would have been funnier - yes.


10 posted on 03/11/2009 11:18:07 AM PDT by fml
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To: Selkirk

The other one is using statistics to lie.


11 posted on 03/11/2009 11:18:40 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Selkirk
100% of all people that breath air die.

We need to stop breathing in order to live forever.

12 posted on 03/11/2009 11:20:26 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Selkirk
Libs love any topic or field of study they can game, spin or show “nuance”. This is simply because it allows the Plastic Reality Crowd to have their way with the truth.

Since they cannot game, spin or have “nuance” for concrete fields such as accounting, they tend to stay away from these fields. Where they do, you'll see misrepresentation by omission and selection. This can be seen in the statistical analysis of “climate change” to justify Global Warming.

13 posted on 03/11/2009 11:43:53 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: Just another Joe

http://xkcd.com/552/


14 posted on 03/11/2009 11:44:47 AM PDT by OH4life
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To: Selkirk
49 out of 50 Liberals are just zombies following their leader blindly, - oh here let me let someone all you know & love, Bob Hope explain it better than I can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkzV5AIK8iM

15 posted on 03/11/2009 11:58:50 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: OH4life

LOL, some of that stuff is pretty good!


16 posted on 03/11/2009 11:59:49 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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