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Old 29th Sep 2013, 23:41
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Fantastic Video Strake.. thanks for that.

I agree with Rigga. These are meaningless numbers without context.

Statistics is a scientific discipline, in the same way that physics, chemistry, astronomy and so forth are.

When I read, listen to, or watch something in the popular media about, say, high energy particle physics, I am interested and I get a feeling of being informed. Actually, all I am getting is the author/producer's take on some more or less relevant, public domain information.

It doesn't mean I have any idea about that particular scientific discipline.

In the same way, when I encounter so called statistics in the media, all I am getting is someone else's take on a bunch of numbers.

Like the majority of the public I know nothing of the science of statistics and so how could those numbers tell me anything?

Rgds SOS

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