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Peter Johnson's avatar

My college once hired someone who had a Ph.D. in "Assessment," which involved him constantly throwing out data and studies and creating meaningless "assessment" tools. This pedagogical approach assumed that one could quantify knowledge, not only how it should be taught but how it should be received. Watching this pointless experiment play out, I came to believe that the professors in the "Department of Assessment" had been proctologists in a previous career.

Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

Is he reading from Politico?

Rogelio W., agent of the self's avatar

I always laugh when people say "I follow the data."

Look, people: there is no data in politics. No data at all.

Statistical data is Disneyland for adults.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

a few years ago I read a very old booklet how to prove everything you want with statistics. That is why you can safely tell a doctor that your numbers are NOT statistics. Blood pressure, sugar, weight, is all personal information and not part of a statistic. A person is unique and so are his/her numbers ! And the farce they made about 150 positive tests, remember. 1. the test was not a test. 2. they counted every test, so someone who came back 5 times was counted 5 times. 3. they never deducted the healed people. The jobs that are 'made' are probably in statistics !

Tardigrade's avatar

Remember Mark Twain's observation about "lies, damned lies, and statistics."

Stephen Rowland's avatar

A negative can be positive. Our forecast was for a foot of snow and a dusting was the final result.

Tardigrade's avatar

Like everything else, the numbers have undergone cosmetic surgery in service to an imagined reality.

Charles Summers's avatar

It’s the science. We don’t understand it because we aren’t scientists.

tecolote42's avatar

My Mom would have loved you. Dad would have been greatly entertained. On their dear departed behalf, I salute you!

Lois Thomson Bowersock's avatar

Rat, you could join Elon and the DOGE team as a consultant helping expose warped thinking patterns leading to the billions flushed down the ratholes.

DE's avatar

All the world is a military theatre

all tax slaves fund the rapacious fraud.

Specifically, when o'bombya was coronated king of peace, it suspended all NOAA temperature data. When it came back online that historical data had undergone "urban adjustments", and from then on, the global warming mirage radiated from every fedgov dataset. That's The Science. There is a lot to hate about o'bombya and his Maoist buttbuddies but nothing more than such wanton cavalier deceits. USAID! USAID! USAID!

AKcidentalwriter's avatar

classic!! I am laughing!!!

Penelope Prill's avatar

Rat is a PREMIER POLITICIAN. Trump and Schumer should study at rat's knee.