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Looks like the younger Bro's gotta cut back on your Starbuck
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Burley" data-source="post: 325168" data-attributes="member: 1690"><p>Yes, these "studies" are ludicrous, but I look at it from the researchers' standpoint. They have to come up with something to justify their funding, which is usually grants from some entity or other. These aren't real scientists looking for and finding causality, but rather mediocrities collecting statistical data, then making weak and qualified inferences from it. Then the media clowns and parrots, another group of mediocrities trying to give the appearance of earning their keep, get hold of the story and try to present it as news. </p><p></p><p>Statistics, per se, don't lie, but the people using them do, whether deliberately or through incompetence. What is one to make, for example, of the "fact" that most people involved in fatal car accidents have ingested carrots a week prior to the accident? Avoid carrots, just to be safe? Show me cause and effect and I might listen to you; otherwise it's just a rogues' gallery of babble. Meanwhile, I have to put up with dainty ladies of both sexes who sincerely believe that a whiff of my pipe brings them a step closer to the grave, and act accordingly.</p><p></p><p>Recommended: "How to Lie with Statistics," an old classic written in the '50s, I believe. Short and sweet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard Burley, post: 325168, member: 1690"] Yes, these "studies" are ludicrous, but I look at it from the researchers' standpoint. They have to come up with something to justify their funding, which is usually grants from some entity or other. These aren't real scientists looking for and finding causality, but rather mediocrities collecting statistical data, then making weak and qualified inferences from it. Then the media clowns and parrots, another group of mediocrities trying to give the appearance of earning their keep, get hold of the story and try to present it as news. Statistics, per se, don't lie, but the people using them do, whether deliberately or through incompetence. What is one to make, for example, of the "fact" that most people involved in fatal car accidents have ingested carrots a week prior to the accident? Avoid carrots, just to be safe? Show me cause and effect and I might listen to you; otherwise it's just a rogues' gallery of babble. Meanwhile, I have to put up with dainty ladies of both sexes who sincerely believe that a whiff of my pipe brings them a step closer to the grave, and act accordingly. Recommended: "How to Lie with Statistics," an old classic written in the '50s, I believe. Short and sweet. [/QUOTE]
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