Has Iowa Seen an Alarming Increase in “Vanishing Children” This Summer?
30 July 2018 - Statistics sound much scarier when presented without any context whatsoever.
Tagged "Statistics"
Is an Increase in Recorded Crime in England and Wales Linked to ‘Radical Islamic Terror’?
21 October 2017 - An early morning tweet from Donald Trump contains a basic factual error and a grossly misleading summary of official UK statistics.
Australian Gun Stats
20 August 2001 - Statistics do not demonstrate that crime rates in Australia have increased substantially since the government instituted a gun buy-back program in 1997.
Do Studies Show That Women with Big Butts are Smarter and Healthier?
18 April 2016 - An Oxford University study that supposedly indicated "big butts make you smarter" was heavily distorted in news reports.
Earth’' Population as a Village of 100 People
What would the proportions of common traits be like if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people?
Does Most Domestic Violence Occur on Super Bowl Sunday?
7 September 2001 - It is not true that the incidence of domestic violence against women is higher on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year.
Do We Only Use Ten Percent of our Brains?
Do we really use only ten percent of our brains?
Spiders Swallowed Per Year
Does the average person swallow eight spiders per year?
Donkey Deaths
Are more people killed by donkeys every year than in airplane crashes?
Do Men Think About Sex Every Seven Seconds?
18 April 2002 - An old bit of accepted psychology holds that men, on average, think about sex every seven seconds.
Blonde Extinction
Are natural blondes likely to be extinct within 200 years?
Sneeze Equals Orgasm
Is sneezing seven times in a row the same as an orgasm?
