Just the Facts

[viscousmemories]

I saw this short article in Wired and thought it was pretty interesting.

Did you know that 62 percent of all cited statistics are bogus? OK, we made that up. But after a 2007 poll found that barely a third of all British citizens trust published stats, Parliament formed a math-police squad to investigate. The top cop in the UK Statistics Authority is Richard Alldritt, an expert in how governments fudge the numbers.

[Ensign Steve]

.. a 2007 poll found that barely a third of all British citizens trust published stats ...

[Leesifer]

60 percent of the time published stats are right all of the time