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Re: In Defense of Anecdotal Evidence
Huge Cajones Remailer wrote:
> Statistics are a useful tool, but they have their problems. Their
> accuracy is often in doubt. Most scientific data comes with an error
> analysis so you can tell what the figure means. For some reason
> statisticians never do this so we cannot tell whether their numbers
> are accurate to within 0.1%, 1.0%, 10%, or even worse.
>
> There are many other problems. For instance, users of statistics
> assume they have a random sample, even in cases where that is far from
> clear.
Wrong statistics is usually obtained by idiots who do not know
what statistics is about.
Social scientists and feminist studies are a frequent example of such
unfortunate situation.
- Igor.