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- From: psybut@next08cville.wam.umd.edu (Bruce Moser)
- Subject: re:Rush v. facts
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.194850.14289@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:48:50 GMT
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- Alex Crain of UMBC writes: " Rush announced last week that durable goods
- were up in both the 2nd and 3rd quarter. In contrast, the Times business
- section (Thursday, Oct 29), has a detailed article on how durable goods
- orders have fallen for the third month in a row."
-
- It is possible, and I dare say likely, that both statistics are true. As
- Mr. Crain writes later in the article, " After all - if you have to verify
- everything somewhere else, why not get it somewhere else to start with?"
-
- A person could get two different stories/facts from different statistics
- on the same subject, and both stories could be correct in their contexts;
- that's apparently what happened here.
-
- I don't claim anything about the economy and its apparent health. I only
- say that I could match anyone statistic for statistic on _any_ subject in
- the universe given the right knowledge and ammunition. That's the power
- of statistics.
-
- -psybut@wam.umd.edu, 11/15/92
-