alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 months agoThat’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1579arrow-down1154file-textcross-posted to: housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world
arrow-up1425arrow-down1external-linkThat’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40lemmy.worldalphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 months agomessage-square106fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 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-up2·5 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.