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Hard to cheat statistics. This is how they find accounting fraud as well.
by tgtweak 4y ago
Hard to cheat statistics.
This is how they find accounting fraud as well.
- roflyear 4y agoYeah, but it is also extremely easy to misrepresent statistics!
- BeetleB 4y agoNo - this is how they find suspects for accounting fraud. They still need to show actual proof of fraud.
- drexlspivey 4y agoHow you suggest they do that in online tours?
- Tenoke 4y agoIt's actually fairly easy to cheat statistics. It happens literally all the time in Academia. There's a thousand ways to make a statistical analysis believably say what you want in a way where even other professionals don't realize is the case unless an expert does a thorough analysis.
- Sebb767 4y agoIt's easy to cheat a statistic you create. It's quite hard to cheat a statistic where you don't know who will look when at which particular data points.
- Tenoke 4y agoWhich is exactly the case here, as they decided what data to look at and how, and possibly had a bias. Further, clearly the analysis wasn't so irrefutable given that they admitted faults with it after others pointed out mistakes[0] 0. https://twitter.com/IglesiasYosha/status/1574308784566067201 https://twitter.com/IglesiasYosha/status/1574308784566067201?
- Sebb767 4y agoI did not intend to attack or defend Hans with that statement, I just wanted to point out that both you and the original comment could be right at the same time. That being said, it's quite funny that this case showed both sides.