lies, damn lies, and statistics...

[sparkomatic]

check this out: One possible upshot: According to the Pew pollsters, "by a slight, but statistically significant margin -- 22% to 16% -- people say that recently they have a less rather than more favorable view of the putative Democratic nominee."

 

I dont know about your world...but never has 22 - 16% been slight in anything...if only my stock portfolio would grow by such "slight" means...I may be rich...

 

full article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington...k-obamas-w.html

[eraser_tr]

With such awkward wording, WTF do they intend to mean?

[+Typhoid]

With such awkward wording, WTF do they intend to mean?

 

for once. We agree!!

 

[+whiteknight06604]

for once. We agree!!

 

 

 

this is starting to happen way too often.

[+JediMaster]

Why, quite simply they mean to inform you that there are people out there of indeterminate numbers who may or may not have had their opinion lowered of Obama by an amount that may or may not be significant.

 

Certainly worthy of a news item.

[+Gepard]

Not

lies, damn lies, and statistics...

but

lies < dam lies < statistics.

 

Or how Winni Churchill said, " I trust only the statistics that i have forged myself.

[+whiteknight06604]

Not

lies, damn lies, and statistics...

but

lies < dam lies < statistics.

 

Or how Winni Churchill said, " I trust only the statistics that i have forged myself.

 

"Or how Winni Churchill said, " I trust only the statistics that i have forged myself."

 

you sure that was Chrchill?I could have sworn that was the MSNBC motto.

[+Gepard]

It was Churchill. But your statement is also true.