11/14 More statistics. See? I said they cut both ways:
http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/hotflash.htm
Pick the numbers you like based on whatever methodology is more
favorable to your political agenda and go for it.
\_ "He was a policy adviser to Governor Bush during the election"
well, duh. this is going to be unbiased! this article makes
a bunch of unsupported assertions. not the same league.
\_ You missed the point. The point is that anyone can make up
anything they like and *prove* it with statistics. I didn't
say he was unbiased. I said exactly the opposite. Duh.
\_ well, there's prove and there's "prove." mentioning that
"1+1=2, therefore adding 1 to a number doubles it" uses
statistic to "prove" something, but the fallacy is pretty
obvious here. The fallacy is not in the statistic, the
statistic is correct. it's a logical fallacy. just because
one argument is fallacious doesn't mean it's pointless to
argue the subject, or that stats are useless. |