> I don't think number lie, unless i've taken a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in bizzaro something.
> Do not the good folks, for nefarious ends, presenting the numbers lie?
Sometimes the numbers do lie all on their own. See The Deluge of Spurious Correlations in Big Data (pdf) by Cristian S. Calude and Giuseppe Longo, where the abstract, in part, reads:
For example, we prove that very large databases have to contain arbitrary correlations. These correlations appear only due to the size, not the nature, of data. They can be found in “randomly” generated, large enough databases...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
