From USA Today, a piece on the believability of statistical data put out by the government and others. The article has a running joke that 62.38% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Many of the bad statistics, such as 400,000 deaths from obesity each year (revised downward to 26,000) or the 100,000 Iraqi's killed since the invasion (revised downward to 25,000) seem to last forever. A miss of 94% is not "statistical error" it is just plain bad work.
Hat tip to Junk Science
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