Episode 1843 Scott Adams: Being Bad At Data Analysis Is No Reason To Be Mad At Me. And More Fun
Real Coffee with Scott Adams
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What Are the Odds That the Data Is Just Misleading?
There's an hypothesis, all right? So here's what I think is how to identify the worst take. The worst to take would be it's one of those things no matter which one you picked. People did give fatter and there's no question that made a difference. But if I told you the data everywhere is consistent, so the way we collect data in the U.S. is different than how they do it in the UK, but all the people collecting data are finding the same thing...I think that's true. It still could be the data because it could be everybody. That's totally possible."
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