The sharks are just jealous of our ice cream

BBC News is running a weekly ongoing series of articles that describe and illustrate common misconceptions (and manipulations) of statistics using examples from the news and ads.
Lesson 1: surveys. Lesson 2: counting. Lesson 3: percentage. Lesson 4: averages. Lesson 5: causation.
posted by Tehanu

The sharks are just jealous of our ice cream | MetaFilter.

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Nice article shamelessy C&P’ed from MeFi.  Good reading for anyone who wants to learn a bit about how statistics lie and how to recongnize such.