A recent study shows that 67.4% of all statistics

[Jackpine Radical]

are made up out of nothing.

[bluerum]

1. Wow. That's a lot.

[Avalux]

2. OK, that makes my head hurt.

And if I were a Bushbot, I could say it means that Bush's approval rating is close to 100%! :silly:

[obreaslan]

3. 73.6% of us agree with you.

:hi:

[MADem]

5. There's a +/- margin of error of 3.41 % associated with that statistic! nt

[Jackpine Radical]

6. How can you tell? He didn't release data on sample size.

Nor did he define "us," thereby making it impossible to replicate.

[MADem]

9. Well, there's a 56.4% likelihood that the data I provided is subject

to a 'truthiness' skew!!!

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Aha! Skewed again.

But a positive skew, I trust.

BTW--can you catch platykurtosis from skewing around too much?

My slogan: Leptokurtosis will rise again, but probably not until the fourth moment.

If you actually get these horrid puns, you spent 'way too much time in a statistics class.

[MADem]

12. Pamela Anderson has some major kurtosis going on!!!

Agggh...statistics....!!! I took three classes at various stages of my post graduate career, but can't say I ever was a bright and shining star in any of them. I was more like the middle of the pack on a good day, bobbing along, dog paddling, desperately trying to keep my head above water, and churning away towards the opposite shore!

[linazelle]

4. Yeah especially when those stats are applied to inflation and unemployment

Nothing (not measuring highly inflated items like food) from nothing (0 X 0 = 0) leaves nothing. Therefore there IS no employment, or inflation and the economy is about to break through the stratosphere. :eyes:

[Bandit]

7. That is quite a statistic...LOL

:rofl:

[bullimiami]

8. they must have undersampled bushco polls.

theirs are 99.9% bullshit.

[freesqueeze]

10. Plus or minus

67 points.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics". - Mark Twain

[Viking12]

14. "Figures lie and liars figure" unknown

[sendero]

15. Some attribute this quote..

... to Benjamin Disraeli. I find it humorous that we don't really know which one said it. Proving that history is pretty much bullshit. :)