On the train

I overheard a conversation on the train today. One memorable quote was,

“Science shouldn’t mess with things. Especially things that we want pretty.”

While listening, I couldn’t help but reflect on people tendency to pull out unverifiable statistics to try and prove their point. I think I’ve even done it in the past. Sometimes I think our imaginations get the better of us.

Edit: This is actually from Saturday but I wasn’t able to post until today. I assumed that it would have saved the creation date and not the ‘post’ date. I should have known better.

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  1. the nice thing is, I have so many verified stats in my head, I can pull out fake ones and 80% of people can’t tell the difference! 😉

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