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04-16-2012, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by vansmith
Therein lies the problem. Two different statisticians can use the same data set and come up with different results. Numbers, despite beliefs to the contrary, aren't neutral when used to make a point. One group making ostensibly false claims can back up their results with seemingly credible statistical tests.
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I think my use of the words statistics wasn't the right one, I should have used bad science as the words since my beef is not the ambiguity of statistics but the blatant misuse of science to make claims not backed up by any real science
For instance, claims that a product can protect against radiation from Fukushima, where the actual science says that such radiation reaching the USA from Japan is barely adding a fraction of a fraction to background radiation
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