This reminds me of Ted Cruz's statistical "evidence" that over a 17 year period, the Earth is not warming. Because he started his 17 year period by including an

This reminds me of Ted Cruz's statistical "evidence" that over a 17 year period, the Earth is not warming. Because he started his 17 year period by including an unusually warm year, thereby significantly changing the outcome of the average. Had he looked at a 16-year or 18-year average, his "evidence" works against him. Also like the "lesswrong" folks who use statistics to make grand claims. Statistics is not a looking glass. It is a math that is only as useful as the wisdom of its practitioner, and can lead to false confidence.