Public Health official admitted she lied and falsified data.
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Don’t sweat it, man. The majority of the population, like yourself, are innumerate and influenced by misleading stats. You’re not alone.
It’ll just take some effort to get out of your rut and not be manipulated by politicians and media using misleading stats.
Start with this:
Techniques used to create misleading statistics include: Using small sample sizes to exaggerate significance or precision.
That business blog's argument has been around for over a hundred years: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain.
Using it to ignore the results of research from at least hundreds of thousand of professionals in thousands of accredited institutions is short sighted.
Choosing instead to line up behind non-experts and their few hundred lesser fellow travelers and charlatans indicates regrettable naivete at the best and serious personal problems at the worst.
Sure, deflect to something else. We were talking about a specific press release.
She's the one who brought up "misleading stats" in general folks, with her earlier link to a business article about "Techniques used to create misleading statistics.."
Maybe she forgot that, 'cause now she's pouting:
Exactly. And the numbers in it about pediatric admissions come from people with relevant expertise in over 200 New York State hospitals.
What peanut gallery pundits like tabloid journalists and anonymous social media impostors claim - without support, just "IMO" - doesn't really matter, does it?