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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (975115)10/25/2016 4:24:32 PM
From: POKERSAM  Read Replies (2) of 1575306
 
Here is a prime example of how stupid you are.

You wrote, "What worries me the most, is that I have read accounts by statisticians that say if we do not get rid of all nuclear weapons we will use them sooner than later.
I know that statisticians can predict things like that with great accuracy. I wish everybody understood that."

The simple and well documented fact is that you can prove anything with statistics.

I can prove anything with statistics, except the truth. George Canning

 As Mark Twain said, "There are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics."

Yes you can prove anything with statistics. Statistics have to be correctly interpreted if they are to be of value. The problem is that most people are not trained in the interpretation of statistics so they tend to believe what is placed before them without realizing that statistics can be made to say anything.
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