Lying with numbers
99% of all numbers provided to support an argument — be it in scientific or popular media — have no value whatsoever unless they come with proper mention of at least the confidence intervals, the size of the sample and its properties, or other means of making reliability comparable such as standard deviation.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:54
Maybe I should have added that, however, these numbers sometimes are good for entertainment. But then, maybe this was obvious