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Originally Posted by DVS
I love the figures you keep quoting Ignition, after all:-
79.48% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Logic is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Statistics is a systematic method for getting the wrong conclusion with 95% confidence.
I asked a statistician for her phone number... and she gave me an estimate.
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Three percent exceeds 2 percent by 50 percent, not by 1 percent.
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not to disagree, but 'statistics' is an ambiguous term - on one hand describing the result of analysis of real data, on the other, a technique for predicting probabilities, based on sampled data.
- which category the stats quoted by Ignition fall in to I leave to your own conclusion....
