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I know this is true because I have done it myself and anyway there is a statistic that, as I remember, proves that most statistics are made up.
Statistics are made flesh.
As Professor Paulos said: "71.3841674321percentt of statistics are made up on the spot".
As I've written before (although with a different number), it's been conclusively established that 43.58871563% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Those stark statistics are made more troubling by the fact that young Americans will soon be faced with caring for the bulging population of baby boomers as they age into retirement, said William O'Hare, a senior consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, on top of inheriting trillions of dollars of government debt.
(Also, 67% of all statistics are made up on the spot. See? Numbers are fun!) Encouraged by my then local and much-loved bookshop a few years ago (shout out to Three Lives & Company on West 10th street in New York!), I went on an intense Didion reading binge that lasted so long I actually began to dream in Didion's voice, which was slightly odd but extremely soothing.
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But a series of recent official statistics are making me question whether the old joke is true any more.
Plots and statistics were made using the statistical programming language R [32].
The statistics were made available at the opening ceremony for the fourth annual CultureFest, an arts fair in Battery Park where dozens of cultural organizations and performers set up booths to publicize their offerings for the coming year.
David A. Schulz, a lawyer representing five news organizations, including The New York Times, said the public was entitled to see the data under the Freedom of Information Law, which requires that government statistics be made public regardless of their accuracy.
Descriptive statistics were made using Excel (Microsoft Inc).
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