Aggregate statistics can sometimes mask important information.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.
I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.
The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.