Reddit reviews How to Lie with Statistics

Also check out "How to Lie with Statistics". It takes on the more nefarious side of this topic. I really enjoyed it.

Came here to say this, thank you. I recently read How to Lie with Statistics and this would be a prime example of laziness on the researchers part.

Edit: Bitwise is correct, for all we know the researchers may not be the lazy ones, we wont know unless we pay for the complete article, but the journalist who titled the article definitely is (no surprise)

How to lie with statistics.

This doesn't present like a well-researched or well-executed engagement campaign, though. I've run a multi-touch product team and I've worked very closely with places like Re-Sci and this is not that.

This is someone who was promoted to their level of incompetence playing business by trying to do what everyone else does. They run the experiment, get the stats they need to make their point, and then use it to justify some new poorly thought-out initiative.

I've had Reddit as a client. Reddit is a clusterfuck. We took our Reddit contact to LIV to entertain them while at a conference in Miami a couple years back and she spent the entire night trying to convince us - and anyone else who would listen - to find her cocaine. It was embarrassing. Complete waste of a table and a night. I've never worked with them since.

> Stats don't lie

Feel free to order these books online:

http://www.amazon.ca/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff-ebook/dp/B00351DSX2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422311052&sr=8-1&keywords=statistics+lie

http://www.amazon.ca/Damned-Lies-Statistics-Untangling-Politicians/dp/0520274709/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422311052&sr=8-2&keywords=statistics+lie

So suitonia's stats are now better than "the most vibrant summer in the past 5 years" stats? Numbers can tell any story you want. Bottom line is we, all of us, don't have all the numbers just what's available on various 3rd party tools and the info CCP provides allows us to see. Every conclusion based on partial numbers is not the truth - and let's not kid ourselves; numbers can say whatever we want them to say and follow any narrative. Make up your own mind, not based on anyone's swiss cheese statistics.

I'll leave this right here:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff-ebook/dp/B00351DSX2