Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Snarf Zagyg]

Sometimes the jokes write themselves (but enough about NuTSR.)

In every country, they make fun of a company. In United States, you make fun of nuTSR. In Putin's Russia, we make fun of nuTSR!
-Yakbraham Lincolnoff, updatingly.

 

[CleverNickName]

 

[Ryujin]

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Reminds me of the debate I had, on Facebook, with a "virologist", in an anti-vaxxer thread. He said that an outbreak of Measles in a smallish town in Quebec, that had a 100% inoculation rate for Measles, proved that vaccines were useless. I think the town had something like 20,000 residents. They had something like a dozen cases of Measles. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty damned effective to me given the virulence of Measles.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Reminds me of the debate I had, on Facebook, with a "virologist", in an anti-vaxxer thread. He said that an outbreak of Measles in a smallish town in Quebec, that had a 100% inoculation rate for Measles, proved that vaccines were useless. I think the town had something like 20,000 residents. They had something like a dozen cases of Measles. I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty damned effective to me given the virulence of Measles.

People, even some smart ones do not always understand statistics.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

People, even some smart ones do not always understand statistics.

At this point, I'm wondering if even a majority of the population does.

 

[JEB]

People, even some smart ones do not always understand statistics.

Especially when their real goal is to use the statistics to "prove" what they already believe.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

At this point, I'm wondering if even a majority of the population does.

I think not.

I watch the news and analysis from a variety of viewpoints and it is abysmal. Abysmal. And I would add it’s not viewpoints that I just don’t happen to agree with. And it’s not just crackpot fringe sorts but even the presenters.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

(Not this thread.)

Seriously, stop engaging with those posters. They are 100% trolling you.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Especially when their real goal is to use the statistics to "prove" what they already believe.

Well, researchers massage and torture the data to make it fit. You have to know how to spot the BS.

But pundits and talking heads say wild things that don’t make sense and don’t get called on it.

I have ideas about stats in sports too. They can actually factor out the era of the players in making comparisons but prefer apples to oranges. Oh well.

after stats there are interest rates…people always get suckered there too