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Revision as of 19:46, 2 December 2007
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He used statistics the way a drunkard uses lampposts - for support, not illumination.
Andrew Lang
Forsooth
The following Forsooths are from the Dec 2007 issue of RSS NEWS.
The methodology behind the ICS survey is flawed. There were only 2000 respondents, a small number for any statistical survey, who were asked to nominate which firms of services they used and how that rated them.
The Times
22 Octobeer 2007
Presenter: 'In statistics, in data which are binomially distributed, individual values may be placed in one of two mutually exclusive categories such that the sum of the probabilities of occurring in the categories is what value?'
Answer given: Unity'
Presenter: 'No, it's one, or a hundred percent'
University Challenge BBC2
October 2007
October 2007