Statistics – Page 322 – William M. Briggs

How to Exaggerate Your Results: Case study #1

In the Tuesday, 6 November 2007 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Pfizer took out a full-page ad encouraging people to "Ask your doctor" about Lipitor, a drug which claims…

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"Damn, those white people are smart! --Duke Ellington, upon first seeing the Golden Gate Bridge
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Are there 700 million black africans? Has whitey screwed all of them?
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Not to mention their reproductivity. Or lack of both. One might hope that they change their focus from physics to…