Statistically Speaking...
Thursday, September 30, 2004
I was thinking about statistics that we come across everyday in our lives and this came to mind. Do you ever stop and think about when an advertisement says 9 out of 10 doctors/dentists approves brand X? What about that 10th doctor/dentists? What's up with them?
Jay Leno recently said in his monologue that
"According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 9 out of 10 doctors think that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot."This made me stop and think. Do 90% of doctors really like brand X? Or is it just 10 doctors sitting around reviewing products. And why does that 10th doctor not approve of brand X? Is he just being contrary? Is it the same person everytime? Why doesn't doctor number 10 approve of this product? Does he have some sort of hidden agenda against the makers of brand X? Maybe he knows something that the other 9 doctors don't know about brand X.
These are the kinds of questions that kept me out of the really good schools.
By the way, there is a great comic over at JoeCartoon.com that makes fun of the very theme of this post. Enjoy.
Posted byJ. R. Guinness at 9:33 AM
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