alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agoThat’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40lemmy.worldimagemessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1583arrow-down1154file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1429arrow-down1imageThat’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40lemmy.worldalphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 months agomessage-square104fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoYou can’t make statistics say anything, I agree. What happens is more sinister - cherry picking, misrepresenting, and falsely comparing statistics.
minus-squarewise_pancake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThat does happen a lot unfortunately. Usually people only want the statistics that confirm their preexisting positions and pick at anything else or ignore it.
You can’t make statistics say anything, I agree. What happens is more sinister - cherry picking, misrepresenting, and falsely comparing statistics.
That does happen a lot unfortunately.
Usually people only want the statistics that confirm their preexisting positions and pick at anything else or ignore it.