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Do You Believe in Statistics?

Author: Faf
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Date/Time: 06:11 GMT
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I saw a guestion a newspaper about two weeks ago. Someone was interested in how they arrive at "Most Beatiful Woman in the Wolrd" and "Best Dressed Mna in Britian" decisions. I know Kylie is cute... but is she really the most beautiful? Is Jeniffer Lopez the most poerful celebrity? Well here's what my own research i carried out came up with

75.8% of all statistics are made up. Surveys get about 67.53% of their results wrong. This is because the chance that you'd be met in the street and asked your opinion about a product is only 1 in 45000. If you live in London or any big city the odds are increased by at least 4%.

In fact you have a better chance of winnig the national lottery which is only 1:44million in the Ukrane and 1:240million in some US states.

If it serves as any consolation though, research has shown that only 15.83% of people living in big cities believe in statistics. The other 74.17% have not taken part in any surveys.

And oh... mobile phones do not cause brain tumors. There's only a 2% chance of which the probability only increases for every 2million minutes used by a further 0.021%

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