Where We Find the Most Bad Statistics

Where We Find the Most Bad Statistics 2012-01-14T08:00:19-05:00

It’s my impression that the greater the social significance of a topic, the more inaccurate statistics will be created for and used about it. Why? 1) The more significant a topic, the more people will measure it, so there will be more statistics about it anyway. 2) The greater the significance, the more people will have incentive to either create or use misleading statistics that best represent their perspective.

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