alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-214 days agoThat’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40lemmy.worldimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1576arrow-down1152file-textcross-posted to: housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world
arrow-up1424arrow-down1imageThat’ll be Why the Median is Barely Over 40lemmy.worldalphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-214 days agomessage-square106fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: housing_bubble_2@lemmy.world
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·16 days 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-up2·15 days 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.