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I don't know about that. Legolas Send a noteboard - 18/04/2013 09:55:36 PM

In the (admittedly unlikely) case that a poll is off by so much that even the margin of error is insufficient to make it correct, while still having been correctly executed, the statistic does for all intents and purposes lie.

More often, statistics "lie" due to not having been executed correctly, most often I suppose by failing to have truly independent data points, or perhaps for other reasons.

But it's true that statistics being misreported or misrepresented are still more frequent than either of the above.

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Statistics lie 0% of the time, people lie or see what they want to see 99% of the time *NM* - 18/04/2013 09:23:17 PM 342 Views
I don't know about that. - 18/04/2013 09:55:36 PM 664 Views
I think the difference is more than semantic in this case - 19/04/2013 12:11:04 AM 742 Views
It is a silly poll - 18/04/2013 09:21:25 PM 786 Views

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