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by pgroves 5164 days ago
Man, this is statistics. You should be able to get any result you want!

I'm only half kidding. I can remember writing my first report (project summary) when I did a contract right after grad school. I put in maybe 5 graphs. Two looked good, three looked bad. The project manager just deleted the bad looking graphs and sent it on to the client.

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"Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support rather than for illumination."