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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Superb. A few years ago I read a booklet from years ago, that showed how you can prove anything with statistics. That is why I neglect the numbers the doctor wants you to stay in-under-over. Who says my blood pressure should be 12/7? Who says my sugar can not go over 120? Have they ever tried to measure very 5 minutes? both values bounce up and down like nutcases LOL.

Not to mention my thermostat and my thermometer, who never seem to agree about the temperature in the house! Numbers are for mathematicians. Life/nature is for real people.

Crixcyon's avatar

Great, good show! I have known this for a while. No matter what you are trying to present or speculate about, you need raw, truthful and unblemished data to begin with. In most cases, that is hard to come by. But then like you show, that data can be manipulated in any number of ways no matter how honest it is.

Government data? Forget it...it is always assumed, tainted or massaged. The same with percentages which are used to prove points about data. Most of that is pure nonsense and lies. Percentages are ridiculous. Look at any financial related contract. It is filled with misleading figures and percentages...all by design.

The only certain percentage is that your body will die and that is 100%...even for the clowns planning on live for 355 years.

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