Thursday, June 28

Leave no statistic behind.




This caught my eye on the front page of the local paper. Whew. Glad we have only three in our household.


The average human has one breast and one testicle. ~Des McHale
Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. ~Gregg Easterbrook
98% of all statistics are made up. ~Author Unknown

2 comments:

Deb said...

Hey, a song I'll remember the lyrics to!

I like the "torture numbers" bit.

Johnny Yen said...

One of my favorite sayings, which I actually used in a conversation about politics with my son this weekend, was "Figures don't lie, but liars figure." Learned it in my Political Science statistical analysis class years ago.