Tomorrow, 20 October 2015, is World Statistics Day. How many people knew that ?

64%

43.7% with a 2% variance 🙂

Well I know of 1.

What a pack of lies.

I’m behind this 110%

I’d hazard 23% agree to disagree with the proposal

78% of stats related threads have a vic reeves quotation in the first hour

Surely you mean there is a 0.002739726027397 chance that any day is World Statstics Day.

Except on leap years.

don’t be so mean

I see the standard deviants have already commented.

😛

120% of stats are made up on the spot

Well what are the chances of that?

Normally I wouldn’t be interested.

GrahamS – Member
Surely you mean there is a 0.002739726027397 chance that any day is World Statstics Day.

Except on leap years. I think if you check World XYZ days aren’t usually Christmas Day or New Years Day (or probably Thanksgiving). Further for most “professional” XYZ’s they will avoid weekends. So your estimate is flawed…

…and just when you think you know the probability you discover it is non an annual event, but only once every five yrs!

Meh… I didn’t specify my confidence interval 😀

“Aw, you can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forty percent of all people know that.”

Who would have predicted this?

There are 3 types of lies;

Lies
Damned Lies
Statistics

To paraphrase another saying;

If as a politician (STWer) you cannot find a statistic to back up your argument you shouldn’t be in politics (on the forum)