Statistic Struggle, Pt. 3
In which Rat has a word of warning
Good time of day, humans!
This is the last installment of Statistic Struggle for now, and we’re going to return to less boring topics Soon™.
Transcript:
Human: — Perhaps the economy isn’t as bad as it seems, after all.
Human: — I made a nice selection of good news that shows some things are going uphill.
Rat: — Consider that one man’s selection of good news is another man’s proof statistics can’t be trusted.
Perhaps we should be grateful to the other party’s cherry-pickers, for they teach us to treat statistical data with a little bigger grain of salt.
It's so funny that outside the bien pensant/nomenklatura most people live their lives in an economy that can't really be measured. There's a wholesome anarchic quality to casual mutual aid and the nominally «black» market. Common pool resources and the self-governance of participants is another example. That can't really be measured either.
Statistics; the 'fake and geh' of nerds.