Good morning! I received a couple of email blasts this morning titled “2020—the Year in Review.” It made me laugh. Really? We need someone to remind us what happened? Today, a potpourri of thoughts… INNUMERACY MIGHT BE AS BAD AS ILLITERACY We all know the adage “figures never lie but liars figure.” True enough; smart people can manipulate data to serve their purposes. But there is a reliance on “data” these days that is simply deceptive and will seem to the less numerically agile as plausible. Yesterday I commented about how many Trump supporters can’t see how counting the number of counties won by a candidate is a misleading statistic. The canard is that because Biden won fewer counties than Obama, the election must be fraudulent. These people are aware that counties come in different sizes, right? Loving County, Texas, had
#292 Musings from the Bunker 12/30/20
#292 Musings from the Bunker 12/30/20
#292 Musings from the Bunker 12/30/20
Good morning! I received a couple of email blasts this morning titled “2020—the Year in Review.” It made me laugh. Really? We need someone to remind us what happened? Today, a potpourri of thoughts… INNUMERACY MIGHT BE AS BAD AS ILLITERACY We all know the adage “figures never lie but liars figure.” True enough; smart people can manipulate data to serve their purposes. But there is a reliance on “data” these days that is simply deceptive and will seem to the less numerically agile as plausible. Yesterday I commented about how many Trump supporters can’t see how counting the number of counties won by a candidate is a misleading statistic. The canard is that because Biden won fewer counties than Obama, the election must be fraudulent. These people are aware that counties come in different sizes, right? Loving County, Texas, had