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Pardon the interruption - Wimbledon Finals
No takers? Kornheiser makes the same points i have regarding Federer and Serena.
Kornheiser is not a racist!
In reply to Devin
Just means both you and he are wrong
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
In reply to Devin
He made a reasonable analysis, even accurate analysis, nothing hateful.
Yours analysis is never reasonable but more on the border of hate.
In reply to Casper
Thanks. Pretty sure my analysis was quite sound laced with relevant statistics.
In reply to Devin
It was a Donald trump rant...laced with his distorted views
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
He, I, and millions upon millions of people.
In reply to Barry
Statistics are not views, now kindly fu#k off. I have another two weeks of mourning to do, minimum.
In reply to Devin
interpretations and uses are subjective and not always valid . . . numbers can be used to tell lies and support racism . . . I realize that you never did measurement and did not go to college . . .
Benjamin Disraeli or Arthur James Balfour said "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
In reply to Devin
When misused, statistics are less Disraeli's "damned lies" and more another leader's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". It is by not presenting all of the information and selectively choosing definitions that statistics can appear to lie. But such claims will not stand up under cross-examination
The UK Guardian
In reply to Devin
The book highlighted the fact that statistics can be manipulated in various ways to serve the purposes of the purveyor. As Huff put it, "Averages and relationships and trends and graphs are not always what they seem. There may be more in them than meets the eye, and there may be a good deal less." In other words, statistics can be used either to inform or to mislead.
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In reply to Devin
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So it is with statistics. We often pay attention to the wrong thing, scrutinising the numbers with a forensic eye without asking about what those numbers really describe. Sometimes there is no intent to deceive; there doesnt need to be. We deceive ourselves.
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