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minus-squareVirtualOdour@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up80arrow-down1·9 months ago6 in 10 Americans believe any old nonsense as long as you present it with confidence.
minus-squareBleatingZombie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up38·9 months ago73% of numerical statistics go unverified
minus-squareLunya \ she/it@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkarrow-up28·9 months agoIf you put a decimal in your statistic, it becomes 82.6% more believable.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·9 months ago71.2% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.
minus-squaredalekcaan@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·9 months ago“You can pretty much come up with whatever quote you want and pretend someone famous said it. Nobody checks anyway.” -Sun Tzu
minus-squareIronfacebuster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months ago“This guy is speaking straight facts” George Washington
minus-squareAngryishHumanoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoI don’t believe you because the end of your sentence wasn’t emphatic enough. Period. Mic drop.
6 in 10 Americans believe any old nonsense as long as you present it with confidence.
73% of numerical statistics go unverified
If you put a decimal in your statistic, it becomes 82.6% more believable.
71.2% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.
“You can pretty much come up with whatever quote you want and pretend someone famous said it. Nobody checks anyway.”
-Sun Tzu
“This guy is speaking straight facts”
I don’t believe you because the end of your sentence wasn’t emphatic enough. Period. Mic drop.