Lies, damn lies, and statistics.

[reynardo]

From the Wikipedia article on "Passing":

This comes to 0.098 percent per year. Extrapolated to the Black census 2000 population of 36 million, this comes to about 35,000 individuals per year. But with the statistical margin of error, the true figure could be zero or less.

Does anyone else see a problem with the last sentence?

Comments

[scascot.livejournal.com]

Negative people? I mean...well, you know what I mean.

[mdsteele47.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the fact that the margin of error apparently has the ability to wipe out the Black population of the country.

ZOMG statisticians are teh RACISTZ!

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

That's the cream, but the whole article is contradictory and confusing. Very odd that it hasn't been flagged as needing a rewrite or something! Ugh!

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

*snigger*