July 21, 2003
From the desk of Jane Galt:Department of Awful Statistics
This one's from Volokh.
Posted by Jane Galt at July 21, 2003 2:45 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksComments
Posted by: Kate on July 21, 2003 5:53 PM
Not only is it an awful statistic, but I think it's wrong. My Husband's grandfather, who died last year at the age of 99 and was an 80 year resident of New Hampshire didn't have to retake his driving test when he was 75, but when he was 95.
Perhaps when they instituted the law it was after his 75th birthday, so he was "grandfathered."
Posted by: Larry H on July 22, 2003 11:31 AM
The final eight words are a fine summary:
"the statistic, I think, is worse than useless."
It's SO worse than useless because it fertilizes the fiction that such statistics are meaningful. Garbage is not a neutral entity.
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