Looking for your best example of twisted statistics (either in the press, research, advertising, etc.) to sell a point. For example, I hear a lot of things in the press where reporters say some medication doubles your risk of getting cancer or something, even if it doubles your odds of getting it from one in 10 million to one in 5 million. It’s like saying “leaving your house increases your risk of getting killed by a falling meteorite by 500 percent”. Anyone else got any good examples?
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
thenumberq2 asked: