“Stats are so f**\ng stupid, ya know? Not that they’re stupid, its the way people apply them. You already have your mind made up, and then you go to imright.com and you start memorizing a bunch of s\t and just throw it up at people.” -Bill Burr
Various poorly-attributed quotes would point out that this way of going about uses statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost—for support, not illumination.
There’s a valid point to this quote, about the problem of using statistics and other data to support a bottom line. But that’s not to say that “stats” themselves are stupid, and I suspect that’s why this is being downvoted.
Probably. I heard his routine for the first time this week, and he about lost me when he talked bad about statistics, but then won me over when he explained how a little knowledge makes us stupider, and his problem is with how stats are misused. I figured people’d read more than the first line before voting. C’est la vie.
“Stats are so f**\ng stupid, ya know? Not that they’re stupid, its the way people apply them. You already have your mind made up, and then you go to imright.com and you start memorizing a bunch of s\t and just throw it up at people.” -Bill Burr
I don’t see how this is particularly insightful in all honesty. Just seems like cheer-leading for the most people are stupid crowd.
I can see that, though I took it more as advice not to fall prey to writing your bottom line first.
Various poorly-attributed quotes would point out that this way of going about uses statistics like a drunk uses a lamppost—for support, not illumination.
There’s a valid point to this quote, about the problem of using statistics and other data to support a bottom line. But that’s not to say that “stats” themselves are stupid, and I suspect that’s why this is being downvoted.
Probably. I heard his routine for the first time this week, and he about lost me when he talked bad about statistics, but then won me over when he explained how a little knowledge makes us stupider, and his problem is with how stats are misused. I figured people’d read more than the first line before voting. C’est la vie.