My WND Technocracy column this week is about lies, damned lies, and statistics. Specifically, it discusses how you determine “good” statistics from “bad.”
How was the sample taken? How large was it? Was it taken randomly? Is it representative of the population, or is it skewed? Was important context omitted?
A lot of people will dismiss statistics altogether as if they can be “made to prove anything.” This isn’t true. Statistics are just mathematics, and mathematics are a perfectly valid way of supporting an argument provided you also use sound logic and reasoning.
Read the full column here in WND News.
Published on June 20, 2013 05:59