To: RC one
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
From my professionally employed statistician friend - “Statistics don't lie... Statisticians lie!” ;)
11 posted on
06/04/2010 3:56:02 AM PDT by
Syntyr
(Mace, Kirk, Thomson, Griffin, Scusa, Martin, Gallegos, Hart - Remember the fallen of Kamdesh)
To: Syntyr; RC one
Or how about one of my favorites, “figures don't lie, but liars figure”.
To: Syntyr
From one of my college Stat’s professors, “You have to watch what your read, always, because I can get the numbers to say whatever you pay me to have them say.”
I learned a lot about questioning the form of “Statistics” delivered. He was very anti-drug company too, because he had worked for one, and described for the “success rates” were manipulated.
21 posted on
06/04/2010 5:51:49 AM PDT by
JDW11235
(I think I got it now!)
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