How to lie with statistics… – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
People please rebellion is warranted across this nation.
Spawn of Hilary won’t endorse this message.
You know what else is 95% effective against Covid-19? It’s called your Immune System! Wait, this just in! It’s Now 99.98% effective against the virus! WOW!
I had it and now what? Compell me into a shot against my will my body. What is good for me is for you to leave me alone. Stop the fear and control mechanism.
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There are lies, damn lies and statistics – Oscar Wilde
Nobody can accurately attribute that quotation to any one person. Some people cite Benjamin Disraeli, but from this link you’ll see that many people throughout the long span of history recognized deceptive statistics, and made similar statements:
https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm
Per EUA Data:
99.95% of vaccinated didn’t get Covid; .05% did get it;
99.07% of unvaccinated didn’t get Covid .93% did.get it;- the difference is statistically insignificant: For 100 volunteers in vaxxed and unvaxxed group, a fraction of one person in each group got it…!
In a recent scientific study of Russian Roulette survivors, not a single one showed any negative effects from the experience.
Statistically, then, we can say that Russian Roulette is completely safe. Probably.
Translation:
You pay $125,000 for an new M class BMW.
The dealer gives you a used 1982 Honda civic with no engine with a glove compartment full of blue masks made in China.
Fauci obviously knows this. That’s why he says keep wearing your mask. He just won’t say that the vaccines are worthless.
“There are three types of lies, there are Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.” – Samuel Clemmons
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Nobody can accurately attribute that quotation to any one person. Some people cite Benjamin Disraeli, but from this link you’ll see that many people throughout the long span of history recognized deceptive statistics, and made similar statements:
https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm
It’s a strange and unprecedented thing for me to find myself agreeing with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Figures never lie, but liars can figure
I thought about sending that article to my congressman and senators but they are all democrats so their party would not let them pass on the truth.
Might open their 👀.
🙏God Bless
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This is an old #’s trick to exaggerate results. For example, if the absolute # changes from 0.1 to 0.2, they would say that’s a 100% increase. The very same trick Buffet used to say his secretary paid more taxes than he does by conflating tax rates with absolute tax $. Of course Buffet pays a lower rate, he hires an accountant team to ensure he pays as little taxes as possible.
Well to be fair he invests strategically to leverage federal corporate tax abatements. Of course, he and the others pay payroll taxes, sales taxes, etc. and employ tens of thousands that pay their own federal taxes.
It’s Marxist unintellectualism and /or pot philosophy to state the rich do not pay taxes.
It’s ignorant and false.
The better analogy is the over 50% of Americans who do not pay any federal taxes!
Earned income is the worst tax. Investment income is more favorable (for now 🙁 )
If a person has been vaccinated why would they care if I’m not vaccinated. There are only 2 logical answers. The vaccine doesn’t really work. Or they get a cheap thrill making people comply with their demands.
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“Pfizer told the FDA that eight (of approximately 22,000) volunteers in its vaccine group developed a PCR-confirmed case of COVID-19, versus 162 of 22,000 volunteers in the placebo group. Moderna reported a similar spread — five out of 15,000 in the vaccine group versus 90 out of 15,000 in the placebo group.”
Looking at Pfizer. 162 – 8 means 154 people supposedly didn’t get the virus due to the vaccine. So 22,000 people got the vaccine to keep 154 people from getting the virus. And with no indication of the severity of the illness in the placebo group.
Monerna. 15,000 people got the vaccine to keep 85 people from getting covid. And no indications of the severity of illness they were saved from.
Yesterday I had egg salad made by my daughter. Today I am still COVID-19 free.
My daughter’s egg salad is 100% effective in preventing COVID-19.
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Nice,… pass the sandwich.
I like that chart there for the “Chance of Surviving Covid-19 by Age and Sex”…but can we get an updated one shown? That one is from June 2020. I’d like to see updated numbers. Then again, we have too many people counted that died “with” Covid, instead of directly “from” Covid.
And how do the Trans people figure into these numbers when they only account for male and female? Must be racist science!
The definitive resource for this is “Faucian Bargain” by Steve Deace.
Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History Paperback – March 26, 2021
by Steve Deace (Author), Todd Erzen (Author)
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With 4 factors, you can dra an elephant. With five, you can wiggle it’s trunk.
It is so easy to mislead/lie with statistics. Graphs are the worst!
Here is an EXCELLENT video explaining the difference.
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Yes, that video was excellent. Thanks for posting it.
Absolutely magnificent!!!!
Ha! That book was elective reading material in university stats class, ages ago. One of the most useful pieces of knowledge to have in the memory banks for critical thinking. Of course, the donkey chasms use it as an instruction manual.
My college physics professor explained the way statistics work with the example, “If you stand with one foot in a bucket of hot coals and the other foot in a bucket of ice, on the average you’ll be comfortable.”
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Similarly, three guys went hunting. The first guy shot and missed the elk (4 feet behind him). The next guy shot and missed (4 feet in front of the elk). Immediately, the statistician yelled, “We got him!”
The way things are going, I expect the Government will give up trying to force the vaccines on us late next year. Once the masses figure out that the shot, which has significant risks, doesn’t prevent you from getting or transmitting the virus (hence masks still required for the vaccinated) and that the Government wants them to retake the vaccine every year, most people will take a pass, including those who were previously vaccinated.
Figures don’t lie, liars figure
“There are 3 types of lies Lies, damned lies and statistics.” Samuel Clemens. This was also on the frontispiece of most of the economic statistics books from my long ago university days
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I still have a copy of that, it’s a good read!