How To Misuse Statistics

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How To Misuse Statistics 20

Posted by samzenpus on Saturday January 16, 2010 @12:17PM from the lies-and-damned-lies dept.

Attila Dimedici writes "This story does a great job of showing how statistics are misused by comparing the incidence of voting for Democrats to the incidence of cancer. While the story has a strong ideological bias, it does a good job of poking fun at the way politicians (and others) misuse statistics."

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