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Re: The Gameday Thread: Philly at Washington
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Originally Posted by sandtrapjack
Mark Twain once said: "There are three kinds of lies....Lies, damned lies and statistics"
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Then the are statistics used in the colloquial sense, which actually are data, and the "subject" of statistics. The "stats" on NFL.com are just data. Fans try to become n00b statisticians when they use said data to "prove" a point.
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10-17-2011, 02:44 PM
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