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About my recent rt: this is something that I saw on the regular at twitch. People (execs etc.) would be very specific in the statistics they picked to prove their point. Let's pretend that the more someone streams, the more lilely the are to do thing foo. If the executives want to show... Cont.

DeefDragon

@deefdragon.deef.tech

Foo as a good thing, they say "95% of regular streamers do foo" where they define *regular* as some rediculously high hour per week number. In the opposite case: "only 2% of all streamers do foo" could be used to deminish the number, but *all streamers* was anyone who streamed in the last 2 YEARS!

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DeefDragon

@deefdragon.deef.tech

17 Aug

This is why you have to be incredibly careful when reading and listening to statistics. Not all statistics are lies, but many people will lie using them. (That said, don't take this as permission to ignore stats you don't like. just because you don't like it doesent make it untrue in some sense.)