Does Carrying A Pistol Make You Safer?

[Smokey613]

Why does anyone put any credence to government statistics?

Statistics prepared by the ultimate user who will be disadvantaged if the statistics are fiddled have some chance of being reasonably accurate and useful.

Government statistics are compiled and prepared by bureaucrats directed by whoever is running things at the moment, whose biases may not be known.

My wife once had a boss that told her... "figures may not lie but, liars figure"

We see examples of this from the feds all the time. Just look at the unemployment numbers if you have any doubts.

[JALLEN]

67.3% of statistics are misleading, and the rest flat wrong.

So what part of the statistics is that statistic in? The misleading or the flat wrong?

There you go, actually reading and thinking through someone else's post.

Are you an outlier, or an antidote?

[Dadtodabone]

67.3% of statistics are misleading, and the rest flat wrong.

So what part of the statistics is that statistic in? The misleading or the flat wrong?

Exactly

[rdcrags]

Why does anyone put any credence to government statistics?

Statistics prepared by the ultimate user who will be disadvantaged if the statistics are fiddled have some chance of being reasonably accurate and useful.

Government statistics are compiled and prepared by bureaucrats directed by whoever is running things at the moment, whose biases may not be known.

Or, as Scott Burns put it, "Torture statistics long enough and they will tell you anything."