Comments on: How I Grew Up Seeing the United States http://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states grep understanding Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:22:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Teaching English in Taiwan http://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states/comment-page-1#comment-243571 Teaching English in Taiwan Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:29:56 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states#comment-243571 <p>Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.</p> Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

]]> By: jr http://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states/comment-page-1#comment-157167 jr Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:58:52 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states#comment-157167 <p>Ehhh...no. I have never once tried to force my religion on someone.</p> Ehhh…no. I have never once tried to force my religion on someone.

]]> By: Carl M http://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states/comment-page-1#comment-156739 Carl M Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:50:29 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states#comment-156739 <p>Jonathan is right. It's a pretty well-known fact among those who study this stuff that 74 percent of statistics found on the internet are simply made up.</p> Jonathan is right. It’s a pretty well-known fact among those who study this stuff that 74 percent of statistics found on the internet are simply made up.

]]> By: Jonathan S. http://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states/comment-page-1#comment-156614 Jonathan S. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:51:21 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states#comment-156614 <p>Cool site and all, but you have to wonder how accurate the data is. I mean, StateMaster uses Wikipedia as it's source on some of these results. Wikipedia? C'mon.</p> <p>On one graph I saw that the "National Coalition Against the Death Penalty" was the source. So you can imagine which way the graph leaned.</p> <p>Statistics can be manipulated any way you want to show almost outcome you desire. That's why it's even more imperative in this instant-access world to not just believe every little stat that is presented to you on the Internet.</p> Cool site and all, but you have to wonder how accurate the data is. I mean, StateMaster uses Wikipedia as it’s source on some of these results. Wikipedia? C’mon.

On one graph I saw that the “National Coalition Against the Death Penalty” was the source. So you can imagine which way the graph leaned.

Statistics can be manipulated any way you want to show almost outcome you desire. That’s why it’s even more imperative in this instant-access world to not just believe every little stat that is presented to you on the Internet.

]]> By: MD http://danielmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states/comment-page-1#comment-156558 MD Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:13:50 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/blog/how-i-grew-up-seeing-the-united-states#comment-156558 <p>There's also NationMaster which is pretty cool as well, http://www.nationmaster.com</p> There’s also NationMaster which is pretty cool as well, http://www.nationmaster.com

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