Statistics
Oct. 10th, 2011 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lionkingcmslWhile driving around today I thought of a nonsensical statistic that is true:
Research has shown that 100% of people that watch television die.
Well, in a sense it is true, but it is misleading, as everyone will shuffle off this mortal coil eventually. But a person hearing that might assume that if they don't watch TV they won't die.
Yet if you listen to ads for medical procedures, medicines, and etc. you get the same misleading statistics.
If you don't take their product or service you will die. The fallacy in that is even if you do as they say you will still die, though maybe not from what was ailing you. The spin they put on it makes it sound like you will become immortal or something.
Just this lion's musings while driving today in NYC.
Research has shown that 100% of people that watch television die.
Well, in a sense it is true, but it is misleading, as everyone will shuffle off this mortal coil eventually. But a person hearing that might assume that if they don't watch TV they won't die.
Yet if you listen to ads for medical procedures, medicines, and etc. you get the same misleading statistics.
If you don't take their product or service you will die. The fallacy in that is even if you do as they say you will still die, though maybe not from what was ailing you. The spin they put on it makes it sound like you will become immortal or something.
Just this lion's musings while driving today in NYC.
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Date: 2011-10-11 12:33 pm (UTC)