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Originally Posted by lsfoster
It's interesting, because this is exactly why I don't like statistics. The numbers might not lie, but numbers by themselves have no meaning. If you just put: 50. It doesn't mean anything. Even: 50%. Of what? Take the first statement, 50% of californians polled disapproved..... It's technically true. It doesn't say "50% of californians disapproved..." It says that 50% of the ones polled. It just doesn't tell you who those are.
The numbers might not be able to lie, but they are also completely unable to present their "truths" without words, and the words are too easy to manipulate.
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You hit the nail with the hammer. If I wasn't clear enough previously in my last post, I meant that I prefer to do my own statistical reasoning based on facts that I find.
This is why I create my own statistics myself, I don't rely on what numbers the media provided. I'll go look into the actual amount of people living in the USA, the number of cases involved, and do my own arithmetic from there.