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Monday, February 6, 2006 12:00 AM

Hooray, Celexa took my sex drive away!

And now my wife can't manipulate me.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Monday, February 6, 2006 08:24 PM

    Statistics

    Anybody who claims that statistics can't lie obviously has no understanding of how statistics are used. I recommend a small book called "How to Lie With Statistics". The related claim that statistics accurately represent a norm is absurd on the very face of it: any situation with a statistic other than 100% is proof positive that there is no meaningful norm, only variance.

    Generalizing off of statistics in the neighborhood of 25%-40% is, at the very least, a dire insult to 25% of the population. More commonly, though, any interpretation of the numbers is not "fact" at all, but just speculation based on figures without stories.

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