Sentence examples for bad statistics from inspiring English sources

Selective use of one falsely positive statistic as a sign of success, while ignoring a series of bad statistics, is described by statisticians in polite terms as "massaging the figures".

Well, it turns out we've been using bad statistics.

Bad statistics are harder to kill than vampires.

Bad sample sizes give bad data, which gives bad statistics when you don't give their context.

This leads to bad statistics when this background isn't made clear.

But Easington is not just a museum, nor a collection of miserable anecdotes and bad statistics.

And there I'm bad at statistics.

After 1992, as recovery got under way, the index fell almost continuously.If the R-word was a lagging indicator, simply occurring more often when bad economic statistics are reported, then it would be of little value.

Carcetti faces any number of challenges, from bad crime statistics and floundering schools to the fundamental fact that — as he put it during his run for mayor — "tomorrow morning, I still wake up white in a city that ain't".

Initial GDP figures for that quarter showed that the American economy was still expanding, but they were later revised to show there had been a small contraction.If the R-word were a lagging indicator, simply occurring more often when bad economic statistics are reported, it would be of little value.

The bad news: statistics tell us these stories are only the tip of the iceberg".