Comments on: HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS; ALSO, LAZINESS.

By: Oscar Richardson

Oscar Richardson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:49:11 +0000

Absolutely true!! And of course, "conservatives" lie and obfuscate all the time, like Ronald Regan and Iran Contra. Lliberals" would never do such a thing. Take for instance the honesty and moral integrity of Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky, Teddy Kennedy at Chappaquidick, John & Bobby Kennedy/Marilyn Monroe. Is a pattern emerging here? If you buy into the bigger lie of our elite are the "good guys", so it's okay because they are agianst those evil elitist other guys, you are being suckered big time. Obama is just as crooked as Nixon was and just as dishonest as Bush was. Like the bumper sticker says – "Liberal or conservative: same shit, different piles."

By: Lacy

Lacy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:44:57 +0000

The basic principle of insurance is protection from calamity. Things went awry when marketers and providers created a system that promoted vast use for routine needs.

What has resulted is a system in which the supposed insurers desperately evade helping those who are the very ones who in principle should be those who truly needed it.

So they say 89% are "happy" with their "health" insurance? Maybe so….So maybe "only" 11% are devastated, bankrupt, or flat on their backs?

Here's another polling statistic for the statistically challenged: Nearly 100% are still happy with their life insurance.

By: ill duce

ill duce — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:56:06 +0000

You don't even have to go to the new survey to see that people are dissatisfied.
54% said they were dissatisifed as a whole with the health care in this country
80% were dissatisifed with the cost
and,
wait for it
52% said that the general lack of health insurance in this country was a critical problem.

But they are all perfectly happy.

Oh, and 76% of them were white.
But surprisingly, the incomes were well distributed.

There are other problems with phone surveys. Lack of phones on the part of poor people which correlates to a lack of insurance.

The lack of cellular phone use whcih correlates to younger people who in turn correlate to lack of insurance.

etc.

By: ShortWoman» Blog Archive » The Shorties Sense

ShortWoman» Blog Archive » The Shorties Sense — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:43:51 +0000

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By: Chris Wren

Chris Wren — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:04:58 +0000

"luminaries" is not a word that comes to mind when I think of Reynolds and his shrinking raft of supporters

By: jazzbumpa

jazzbumpa — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:11:50 +0000

Sir -
Well stated, Sir.

By: You can call me, 'Sir'

You can call me, 'Sir' — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:55:50 +0000

A lot of criminal justice statistics widely used to support this or that political agenda rely on similar statistical calisthenics. It's very rare that anyone challenges such activities, as they're generally sold under the implication that they support tougher crime legislation, while failing to note that certain flavors of crime have continued to rise in direct correlation with increasingly stricter laws. Challenging such legislation is political suicide, therefore, rubber stamps rule the day.

By: Skepticat

Skepticat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:55:38 +0000

That many people might well still be happy with their health care. It's the cost of the health insurance that lets them access that care that makes them miserable. I was happy with my health care right up until the cost of the insuramce forced me to give it up.

By: Susan of Texas

Susan of Texas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:41:35 +0000

Hey, that link wasn't Althouse/Goldberg slash. Tease!

I saw Kudlow have a fit when a reporter on his newtwork told Kudlow that the facts didn't support his conclusion. I've seen toddlers with more restraint.