Did the justice fit the crime?

Antihero wrote: I hate it when discussions turn to statistics, I mean....I can provide statistical proof that lack of pirates causes pollution but how real do you think that is?

I find your inability to distinguish between rank amateurs, those that torture data to get a confession, and professionals such as myself that competently and fairly apply mathematics for the betterment of humanity disturbing.

Good day sir

Added later…

Since you like the pirate / smog thing, here’s a whole website dedicated to the fallacy of assuming causation when in the presence of correlation.

Spurious Correlations

BTW, this is just one of seven well known ways to completely Berk up the math.

Again…lots of amateurs, lots of salesmen, lots of ways for them to get it wrong.

Don’t let their noise mask our signal please.

RX Reven' wrote:

Antihero wrote: I hate it when discussions turn to statistics, I mean....I can provide statistical proof that lack of pirates causes pollution but how real do you think that is?

I find your inability to distinguish between rank amateurs, those that torture data to get a confession, and professionals such as myself that competently and fairly apply mathematics for the betterment of humanity disturbing. Good day sir

There are lies, damn lies and statistics. Statistics in General are skewed by the people presenting them. Hence why I brought up the aforementioned pastafarian example

Edit: just saw the link, hilarious