Hey Oracle Say it aint so: Johnny V winless for 5 days!!!

[Gander]

Okay. Thats that. And I owe you a thanks for not ridiculing me severely when my favorite baseball team layed down and lost 5 straight to the Yankees last weekend. Was waiting for everybody to rip me on that!

Ahhhh the misuse of statistics to prove or disprove a point. Just like on TV with every sport I have seen, from baseball to horses. Amazing.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by pgardn

Ahhhh the misuse of statistics to prove or disprove a point. Just like on TV with every sport I have seen, from baseball to horses. Amazing.

Mark Twain said there were three kinds of lies, "Lies, damn lies and statistics."

Which leads me to my one math joke:

A doctor, a lawyer and a statistician go hunting with bows and arrows. They spot a big 8-point buck.
The doctor shoots and the arrow goes 30 feet to the right.
The lawyer shoots, and the arrow goes 30 feet to the left.
The statistician shouts, "We got him!"

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Mark Twain said there were three kinds of lies, "Lies, damn lies and statistics."

Which leads me to my one math joke:

A doctor, a lawyer and a statistician go hunting with bows and arrows. They spot a big 8-point buck.
The doctor shoots and the arrow goes 30 feet to the right.
The lawyer shoots, and the arrow goes 30 feet to the left.
The statistician shouts, "We got him!"

Cool. I will take the libery of using that. The fallacy of averages.

I leave for a weekend and I miss all the good stuff. This is one of the most entertaining threads I have ever read.