bad statistics

Exposing meaningless statistics or analysis of statistics. A particular hatred is superlatives, such as "the best", "the worst" etc.

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RT @bounder: "Birmingham Half Marathon set for record entries" http://snurl.com/mfxz2 erm it's only the second one

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Really don't understand some people's obsession with round numbers. If you've got, say, 100 Twitter followers, is it really different to 99?

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A great badstats-related xkcd today http://xkcd.com/558/

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RT @DowningStreet: 99% of maternal deaths are in developing countries. [99% of how many? you want higher % share in developed countries?!]

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RT @ loadsapeople "Inbox 0" - Maybe you only get one email per day?