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| Topic | In case you haven't heard, apparently Trump is making up his own fake news now. |
| darkknight109 10/22/18 4:13:20 PM #37: | OhhhJa posted... Except I never made anything up. You did What do you think I made up? That attacks "plummeted"? No less wormy, misleading language than saying they "highly increased". Saying that they dropped by nearly 50%? They did and your own numbers show that - half of 24 is 12, meaning 2017 missed the mark by just four. Subjective? Absolutely. Misleading? Sure. But so was your statement about how these attacks had "highly increased", which was exactly my point. And no, it wasn't making things up, unlike the last statement of your last post. OhhhJa posted... Would you not call an increase from 3 mass shootings to 24 in one year a big increase? Depends - would you call a drop from 24 mass shootings to 16 a "plummet"? Again, this is why most statisticians avoid subjective qualifiers in the first place. I work with this sort of data in my job all the time and I'm constantly having to impress this upon the junior engineers working under me. Things like we don't "highly recommend" something - we either recommend it or we don't; or that risk isn't a "conservative estimate" - just "an estimate". --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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