Facing The World
How to deal with friends, family, coworkers and colleagues who may not understand, not care, or even dismiss your diagnosis.
Cause and Effect
March 11, 2011
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MEMZAK, the book you mentioned, How To Lie With Statistics was written a while back by Darrell Huff, and it’s hilarious. The area where I’m noticing all kinds of bogus claims is around ‘green products’ and ‘organic food.’
Its funny about statistics. There is a book called “How to Lie with Statistics” I have never read the book but I know for a fact that statistics can be manipulated. I worked for an educational institution where our marketing department wanted statistics from our database. Being the Dataase administrator at the time, it fell to me. I had to be really careful about the numbers I came up with because it was so easy to skew things. I would have to ask some serious questions about who to include in the numbers because sometimes the numbers didn’t look “right”. I guess you can say I have first hand experience with manipulating those pesky statistics to the point that I am always suspecious of what they are trying to prove but they do have their uses. “Safe and Effective” would have to have some numbers to substantiate the claim.
I had to watch twice because I was sidetracked by your comment about being good at math (oh, I’m not good at math!….oops, I just ‘noticed’ one of those negative comments for the new game).
I got myself refocussed and whoops! You started crossing off those zeroes and I was caught up on figuring out what you had done there.
You are right. We need to carefully consider ALL the facts before jumping to conclusions. Thank-you for the reminder!
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I had to re watch the part when you were saying elderly people only go to familiar places to make sure that you did in fact, say strip clubs xD
I have looked at your videos and understand that you exaggerate the circumstances of an ADD/ADHD-er to make your point, but I still feel that you are making the ADD/ADHD-er look like a fool!