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From LifeHacker: avoiding basic errors when interpreting stats

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It's like I was saying earlier: when used for good, statistics can inform your sound decisions and opinions.

But stats can be used to mislead, as well. LifeHacker.com offers some basic guidance on this subject.

And what if you already have the numbers you want to share, but you want some irrelevant facts to go with them? Visit NumberQuotes.com and find some facts to go along with your measures. My favorite is the number 1: population for New Amsterdam, IN. It's also the number of dollars needed to buy everyone in New Amsterdam, IN, a hot dog at the 7-Eleven. That would be -- you guessed it -- one dollar.

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Chris Hemedinger

Director, SAS User Engagement

+Chris Hemedinger is the Director of SAS User Engagement, which includes our SAS Communities and SAS User Groups. Since 1993, Chris has worked for SAS as an author, a software developer, an R&D manager and a consultant. Inexplicably, Chris is still coasting on the limited fame he earned as an author of SAS For Dummies. 

1 Comment

  1. Jacob Williams on

    "when used for good, statistics can inform your sound decisions and opinions."

    i must agree with you... and we always seem to abuse the data gathered.

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