UngeheuerLich
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The difference is today, that today you can have 1000 independant evaluations of * statistics, and only 3 state that * is not changing, and some (former) people of interest feel that those 3 are right.i don't think that is a modern thing... mark twain said "There are three types of lies... lies, damn lies, and statistics" long before anyone here was born (most likely before our parents were)and we skew older then teh average D&D player...
my issue (and I beleive his) is when you manipulate the statistics to say things, or just infer things not in them... like "4e out sold 3e so 4e is better" or "1 in 5 babies born are chinese (true) so if YOU have 4 kids and your pregnant (or your wife is) with twins odds are good they are chinese"
To your other concerns: yes, wrongly applied statistics are everywhere, and you are well served to not believe any of them without thinking.
This is why I actually mentioned it. Drawing the conclusion that people get confused when you see zero people who actually are is easily detected as a lie.
*editited out because of the no politics rule, although it is not politics but science.
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