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Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921431 by Oberon_Kenobi
Mar 4, 2016 1:32pm
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I thought that I could keep editing (because of a recent update), but the edit button is gone.

I use statistics from different years in my previous post because that is what is available in the CDC and other statistics that I found.

And this thread has moved from the "Funny Pages". It should probably be in "Off Topic Wildly".
Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 4, 2016 6:39pm
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"Sixty percent of all statistics are wrong."

~Albert Einstein
Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921427 by Kelsung
Mar 6, 2016 10:27am
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I once told a plant manager that was trying to reprimanded me based on some figures he had that you can make the numbers mean anything you want them to mean.

Case in point......

Everyone who has ever taken a drink of water has died so water must be poison.

Shiloh
Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921549 by shiloh
Mar 6, 2016 11:59am
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Everyone who has ever taken a drink of water has died so water must be poison.

Dihydro-monoxide
Re: Beware!
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Reply to: #921552 by Oberon_Kenobi
Mar 6, 2016 2:14pm
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Funny you mention that.

In grad school, we labeled certain solvent bottles as Dihydrogen Monoxide around lab for a joke. It seems that some safety officers don't know much about chemistry and don't quite understand the joke. On an annual inspection, we were cited for keeping "highly reactive" monoxide compounds out on the lab bench and not properly labeling our acids and bases.

Though to be fair -- how does one properly label Dihydrogen Monoxide -- acid? base? bacid? acidase?

Needless to say, our boss wasn't thrilled about the citations and had several heated discussions with the safety officers about the bogus charges.
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Reply to: #921412 by Grrly Girl
Mar 7, 2016 10:00am
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(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.
(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171

I thought these numbers looked way high. Then I too looked on line and concluded that they actually could be low! At the very least, they are in the ballpark.

I also notice that when letterboxes are presented with a truly scary statistic, they mark it funny.

Old Blue
denial apparently is a river in Africa