Sunday, September 09, 2007

Reversing the statistic

David Aaronovich recommends that to get the true measure oif a statistic, you should reverse it. Dave Allen agreed. On hearing that 25% of road accidents were caused by drunk drivers, he took another sip of whiskey (he was Irish) and pointed out that this meant that 75% were caused by sober drivers.

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