Galt's Gulch

The lies of the averages

Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 6 months ago to News
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  • Posted by Technocracy 10 years, 6 months ago
    Given the employment picture, Americans spending twice as much time sleeping as working does not really seem surprising.

    Ugly and dangerous, but not surprising.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 6 months ago
      How much time do you think that the productive actually spend sleeping vs. the looters and moochers? As my title says, this is the lie of the averages. If you put one foot in boiling water and the other in ice water, on average things are fine.
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      • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 6 months ago
        Uhm... you have to qualify your question... are you talking about moochers and looters sleeping at home, in bed, or on the job?
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  • Posted by desimarie23 10 years, 6 months ago
    Where are the hell are they getting these numbers from? These can't be accurate...
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    • Posted by Technocracy 10 years, 6 months ago
      Ahh...now you come near the key bit.

      The key to lying with statistics is picking the right scenario for your modelling.

      They aren't going to tell you how they derive the numbers or data sources.

      If they said for instance, we got this from the Bureau of Labor....well naturally nearly all of us would ignore it as the bovine excrement it would be.

      So instead they say nothing usefull about how they derive the numbers.

      edit - hit save before I finished
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 6 months ago
        So long as you do the edit before the ability ends (30 secs?) you don't need to identify that it was edited. I'm not sure if the post is directly viewable or is only so after the edit period ends (probably the latter, if I were designing the system).
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