Chinatown Buses - Statistics were wrongly calculated?
This quote from Mark Twain comes to mind:
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Government Assault on the Chinatown Bus Industry Fueled By Bogus Federal Study - Reason Magazine
An influential report by the National Transportation Safety Board used the wrong data and committed "statistical malpractice."
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Government Assault on the Chinatown Bus Industry Fueled By Bogus Federal Study - Reason Magazine
An influential report by the National Transportation Safety Board used the wrong data and committed "statistical malpractice."
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posted by Ray Ritchey at
2:39 PM
3 Comments:
I haven't seen either report yet, but when we bear in mind that Reason is a magazine committed to hard-core Libertarian ideology, its conclusions ought to be carefully scrutinized. After all, such Libertarians fundamentally do not believe in government regulation of anything at all.
I agree, you need to look at the source data and with statistics, it's so easy to cherry pick the data.
On scrutinizing, unless I have seen the original data, I go by the ideal of trust, but verify.
Chinatown Bus Sweep Said Based on Faulty Study Defended by NTSB -
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