Lies, damned lies, and statistics

The six most frequently quoted bulls**t statistics. (Hat tip: Sully.)

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[Mad Max, Esquire]

Does this mean I should stop beating my wife on Super Bowl Sunday? What else am I supposed to do during the half-time show???

[Jim]

I don't know about suicides, but I do remember, back when I was an EMT, that a lot of people used to die around Christmas. Although that could have just been one of those things where you think it's true so you notice it more.

I never really noticed the busy full moon nights thing my co-workers would talk about. Occasionally it would be busy on a full moon, but usually it was like it always was.

[Texasyank]

The Super Bowl wife-beating hoax is especially infuriating; you would not BELIEVE the number of (especially) women in higher education who insist that this rumor is true, despite about nine million articles indicating the contrary.

A journalist friend of mine, looking for a story a few Super Bowl Sundays ago, called a battered woman's shelter looking for a story about the onrush of women running for their lives. She was told, "It isn't TRUE, will you people PLEASE leave us alone."

Most Super Bowls, husbands don't know their wives exist.

[Sandy Underpants]

The one benefit I've noticed from Republican rule of this country is the less tolerance of female bullshit. If there's anybody else that remembers the 90s, man did women have an increasing annoying say in matters, not so anymore.

Was that supposed to be clever you dumbass?

[Sandy Underpants]

It's the truth. Recall, if you will, during the 90s how women had such a powerful say for their particular agenda. The National Organization of Women could claim that spousal abuse increases dramatically during Superbowl weekend and no one would question it, but rather accept important "information" about domestic violence and how to prevent it or help someone who suffers in it. That stupid lie wouldn't even make it on television this decade. Today we get images of wealthy women who can't even run their lives and can't even make decisions over their own bodies. Multi-zillionaire Britney Spears doesn't even control her own bank account, her dad has court ordered control of that. It's just very interesting the change from the cerebral 90s to the incompetent 00s. Foolish code pink, Rosie O'Donnell and Cindy Sheehan can't get any traction other than to look like foolish loons. Martha Stewart went to prison for something every man in her position gets away with. Women's rights activists were silenced and shoved to the back this decade. Better late than never.