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The average male height is 176cm, but I'm 187. LIES I TELL YOU! PURE LIES! aka, some folks on HN don't know about statistics.
by md_ 3y ago
The average male height is 176cm, but I'm 187. LIES I TELL YOU! PURE LIES!
aka, some folks on HN don't know about statistics.
- pmlnr 3y agoOh, I understand statistics, that's not what I'm saying: I'm plainly saying that so far, with anything I threw at it, the gov.uk inflation calculator is a plain lie.
- md_ 3y agoIn my experience--which is anecdotal, and thus shouldn't be trusted--nearly any discussion of inflation involves people waving around their untrustworthy anecdotal experience as evidence that the statistics are wrong.