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mym1990

> Furthermore, I think journalists doing statistics must be destroyed.

Because you think there are no journalists out there that can do statistics, or because you think they will always use it to make their own point?

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You do see a lot of really poor understanding of statistics out there, but on reflection, I want to say the latter is much worse. If journalists with an agenda were actually good at manipulating data, it would be much harder to put trust in anything.

I totally understand that, statistics really is a double edged sword. I think a good journalist can do a lot of wonderful things with data. If we end up living in a world where journalists are banned from using data at all, that would be very disappointing.

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