OK, OK, my mind has been wandering a lot lately. So, here’s another observation of mine.Â
STATISTICS DON’T LIE.Â
You heard it here from the mathematician. They don’t lie. The problem is people don’t know how to analyze them. People see them as universal truths whereas they are only the truths of a small population or sample tested on. Still, I find them fascinating. Especially when I see or read stuff like, “4 out of 5 dentists recommend…” Most people are like, “How can they justify saying that?” Simple, they only polled five guys… the right five guys, to get the result they wanted. Then why not poll five guys that they’d know would all accept whatever was being tested? Because nobody would believe those results, and the information would seem fake and “doctored”. Good thinking, huh?Â
I would love to meet those five dentists and see what toothpaste or what dental floss they are using. That would tell me a little bit more about the results. More interesting would be to find the 85% of doctors that believe a particular drug works better than another. How randomly were those guys chosen. Better yet, I’d like to see who their pharmaceutical reps are, and how well they push their drug.Â
Or how about those 3 out of 4 people who test tasted diet coke and diet pepsi and discovered that diet pepsi tasted better. The coke lovers must have been at the other side of the mall where there 5 out of 6 thought that diet coke tasted better.Â
Speaking of telling the truth, statistics say that 85% of those who drank Coca Cola with traces of cocaine in it are currently deceased. The fact that there hasn’t been traces of cocaine in Coke for decades probably has something to do with it, but wouldn’t this be a great argument to explaining to people that cocaine is deadly?Â
According to a poll of people who have read my L.O.’s, they are a huge success. Three out of three people who read them like them. I should just say that 100% of my readers are satisfied with my work. I wouldn’t be lying. But I guess you’d have to read a little bit into the truth. By the way, if you read this and don’t like it don’t reply. I’d like to keep my track record. Thanks!