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Numbers Lie?

WalterTrull

Godfella
It is said: "Numbers don't lie."
I've been reading the reports of the Cuomo nursing home reports and it seems that while the numbers aren't wrong, categories there have been adjusted favorably. We have learned to manipulate numbers quite effectively. Lying? Do you trust the numbers? Gonna go look at some more TV ads.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
It is said: "Numbers don't lie."
I've been reading the reports of the Cuomo nursing home reports and it seems that while the numbers aren't wrong, categories there have been adjusted favorably. We have learned to manipulate numbers quite effectively. Lying? Do you trust the numbers? Gonna go look at some more TV ads.

I trust numbers, not people who have done nothing to earn my trust.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I've long suspect the number 5 of being dishonest.
And 8 is suspicious....turn it on its side, & it looks
like very close together eyes.
 

Brian2

Veteran Member
It is said: "Numbers don't lie."
I've been reading the reports of the Cuomo nursing home reports and it seems that while the numbers aren't wrong, categories there have been adjusted favorably. We have learned to manipulate numbers quite effectively. Lying? Do you trust the numbers? Gonna go look at some more TV ads.

It's not the numbers that lie, it is the use of numbers by people which is the lie, and even then many people who are using the numbers the wrong way are not aware that they are misusing them.
I noticed that this week when considering the supposed number of Christian denominations in the world (which seems to vary from site to site and does not really mean the number of denominations and does not even mean the number of differing beliefs)
 

Altfish

Veteran Member
It is said: "Numbers don't lie."
I've been reading the reports of the Cuomo nursing home reports and it seems that while the numbers aren't wrong, categories there have been adjusted favorably. We have learned to manipulate numbers quite effectively. Lying? Do you trust the numbers? Gonna go look at some more TV ads.
Numbers are correct, but people/companies/governments manipulate them to deceive.
I recommend you read this...
How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin business): Amazon.co.uk: Huff, Darrell: 8601300094434: Books
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
It is said: "Numbers don't lie."
I've been reading the reports of the Cuomo nursing home reports and it seems that while the numbers aren't wrong, categories there have been adjusted favorably. We have learned to manipulate numbers quite effectively. Lying? Do you trust the numbers? Gonna go look at some more TV ads.

People lie, and they use numbers and words to do so. But it's not the numbers' (or words') fault.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
How about my 'L. Ron' hat. We could start a religion with 2 signifying completion. Can't jump very high, but we do it with both feet.
Cut a set of digits out of wood. See which ones stand up. Seven and nine never will. Seven being slightly worse. Two will stand up. It has a flat base.

Sorry, it was just a bad Dad joke.
 

WalterTrull

Godfella
Cut a set of digits out of wood. See which ones stand up. Seven and nine never will. Seven being slightly worse. Two will stand up. It has a flat base.

Sorry, it was just a bad Dad joke.
I suppose dads do tend to have flat bases. When they don't, questions arise. Don't ja hate arisal?
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It is said: "Numbers don't lie."
I've been reading the reports of the Cuomo nursing home reports and it seems that while the numbers aren't wrong, categories there have been adjusted favorably. We have learned to manipulate numbers quite effectively. Lying? Do you trust the numbers? Gonna go look at some more TV ads.
It's the People's Republic of NewYork. Chairman Coumo was just holding up that long time tradition as our supreme emperor.

Cuomo aides rewrote nursing home report to hide higher death toll
 
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