Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for May 09, 2024

Horace is actuary terrified.

I would enter a comment, but the site won’t let me save it…

4 out 5 people don’t know it adds up to 80%.

What are the chances of that happening.

Good thing he didn’t utter the words “Binomial Theorem”…

stat attack…

“40 percent of our boys are between the age of fourteen.” —Robert Benchley, THE TREASURER’S REPORT (1923)

Statistics can be used to show trends, or to hide them. I only use them when I don’t have anything substantial, of course.

can do the mile in under 4 minutes….?

Run away from them?

Every now and then, you just can’t refute the statistics.

Such as… 100% of divorces started with marriage!

Most of those who fear statistics can’t tell the difference between an actual statistic and a randomly “quoted” number.

60% of people who fear statistics are water

Samson and Pastis ought to collaborate.

Get out of there Horace, stat!!

“… are 50% faster than average.”

Hoofin’ on outta here!

Or that 74 percent of statisticians hate their jobs?

Mark Twain wrote ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, dämñed lies, and statistics.’ He later accredited the saying to someone else. But either way I like it.

Is Horace’s reaction statistically significant?

If all the economists were laid end to end, they wouldn’t reach a conclusion.

But, of course, we have your number.

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