Did you know...

[David]

Did you know that 74% of all statistics are made up?

 

[caudio51]

made up based off research?

And your post in of itself is made up as it is a statistic

 

[David]

:dunno:

 

[Texas Cop]

No I did not...Thank you for that bit of information, my life is now complete:clap: :clap:




drew

 

[Rank_Tyro]

I heard it was 82.6%.

I'll have to recheck my sources.....

 

[David]

I heard it was 82.6%.

I'll have to recheck my sources.....

We could just average the 2 numbers if ya want.

 

[smokinafuente]

I heard somewhere that 5 out of 4 people have a problem understanding statistics.

 

[tedski]

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

 

[smokem94]

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

:hysterica :hysterica :hysterica :hysterica

 

[Electric Sheep]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
................................................................- Mark Twain, et al

 

[tedski]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
................................................................- Mark Twain, et al

Interesting ... The page where I saw this quote gave the credit for this to Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), a British politician.

Link

Maybe this is because 6.9% of all quotes on statistics are incorrectly credited.

 

[tobby4]

Good to know Dave...


More useless shit

 

[Electric Sheep]

Interesting ... The page where I saw this quote gave the credit for this to Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), a British politician.

Link

Maybe this is because 6.9% of all quotes on statistics are incorrectly credited.

No, you are completely correct; Mark Twain popularized the saying in the United States, but he was merely quoting Disraeli...his exact words were:

‘The remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”.’

But even so, it's disputed that even Disraeli said it, and a near certainty that he didn't originally create it:

(from Wikipedia)

Recent research indicates that neither Disraeli nor Twain actually coined the phrase. Alternative attributions include the radical journalist and politician Henry Du Pré Labouchère (1831-1912), and Leonard H. Courtney, who used the phrase in 1895 and two years later became the president of the Royal Statistical Society. There is some doubt, however, as to what Courtney intended the phrase to mean.

Recently however, attention has been drawn to a use of the phrase in 1892 by Mrs Andrew Crosse Cornelia Augusta Hewitt Crosse (1827-1895). In 1894 a doctor called M Price read a paper to the Philadelphia County Medical Society [citation needed] in which he referred to "the proverbial kinds of falsehoods, 'lies, damned lies, and statistics.'" The fact that he referred to the phrase as "proverbial" seems to imply that he thought it familiar at that time. The phrase has also been attributed to [William] Abraham Hewitt (1875-1966), and Commander Holloway Halstead Frost (1889-1935). Since the phrase was current by 1892, Frost can be eliminated and Hewitt must be very unlikely indeed.

And knowing all that, in my post I attributed the quote to Mark Twain, et al, which is to say, "Mark Twain and others".

:smokingco

 

[David]

Good to know Dave...


More useless shit

Oh, but I beg to differ. The polls are in and only 62% claimed it was useless shit.

 

[cvm4]

:rofl:

There's only a 77% chance David will say "bite me" if in the right situation.

 

[BradMc]

What is the % of people, that really give a shit about the %'s..........

 

[CWS]

17.6% give a small shit
44.2% give a shit
19.8 % give a major shit

Of course these must be adjusted regiionally for statical variances. :glassesgr

 

[AZsteelman]

Did you know that 82% of people who use statistical data are weird!

 

[caudio51]

Was this sparked by the politcal stats you always see??