CIA Fears UmpTeen InfoNukes
Paul S. Penrod
furballs at netcom.com
Wed Jun 26 21:18:43 PDT 1996
On 26 Jun 1996, Clay Olbon II wrote:
>
> Probably the same way other things are counted when used to make a
> political point (# of homeless people, # of date rape victims, etc.). Make
> a wild-ass guess based on a very small sample, then multiply by a factor of
> 10 or 100. I think lying with statistics has become a national pastime
> recently. I tend to not trust numbers issued by folks who stand to gain
> from the use of the numbers.
>
> Clay
>
Lying with statistics probably started with the invention of the same.
Mark Twain put it best:
"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics"
:-)
...Paul
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