[CLUE-Talk] Bowling for Columbine

[David Anselmi]

Timothy C. Klein wrote:
[...]
> 
> Remember, that $20k/year is for a family of four, if I remember
> correctly.

True.  It is $8800 for an individual, I should have been more 
consistent.  I'm still not clear whether the 12% of individuals below 
poverty includes only people living alone or somehow overlaps the 
figures for families.

>>Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
> 
> I hate this saying.  As a budding mathematician, I must say:  statistics
> *never* lie.  People do, and sometimes people intentionally use
> misleading statistics.

The saying isn't that statistics lie, it's that if someone is telling 
you statistics you'd be better off if they were (merely) telling you 
damn lies.  It's easier to detect a lie (even for mathematicians, I'd 
guess) than a misleading use of statistics.

Dave