Re: In Defense of Anecdotal Evidence

Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:

Statistics are a useful tool, but they have their problems. Their accuracy is often in doubt. Most scientific data comes with an error analysis so you can tell what the figure means. For some reason statisticians never do this so we cannot tell whether their numbers are accurate to within 0.1%, 1.0%, 10%, or even worse.

There are many other problems. For instance, users of statistics assume they have a random sample, even in cases where that is far from clear.

Wrong statistics is usually obtained by idiots who do not know what statistics is about. Social scientists and feminist studies are a frequent example of such unfortunate situation. - Igor.