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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
The basic problem is not the stats themselves, but how they are used. At times it seems like reporters have a theory and then they go out to find the numbers that support it. It happens in business too. The better approach is look at the stats and decide what narrative they are actually telling you.
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Mirtle's niche is to be a stats guy. He tweets stats all day every day. I have very little doubt it was the numbers first that lead to his theory, not the other way around. I'm not convinced the numbers mean write what he thinks, but I highly doubt he had a negative flames view first and went on a search to prove it.