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SYSK Choice: How to Figure Out Anything & The Art of Statistics

Something You Should Know

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Is This a Big Number?

A few questions one should always ask before accepting a number. Is it true, or is the evidence so bad that some one is essentially making it up? And then why am i hearing this? What's thi story? What what's wat's the interest? Are they trying to reassure me and so on? All these are questions you can ask enable you to get some sort of scepticism about a number. Not a cynicism. Dont no, you shouldn't just reject them out of hand, but you should be able to just ask, well, as as I said, is this a big number? Is it important? Or is it being packaged in a way that's trying to

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