On not believing everything................

..................................you read (or hear).  Of course our hero in this tale is using statistics and data to backup the following quote, and you know what they say about statistics.  But still, the quote:

"The bottom line is to be wary of anecdotes even when (maybe especially when) they’re repeated again and again as conventional wisdom. In this case, some pundits actually scored a rare double bogey. They got the reasoning behind the anecdote wrong."

Full essay, with accompanying data, is here.

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