Lazy Reporting (or: Step Off My Breasts)
Feb. 21st, 2012 03:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm tired of seeing news stories quote the statistic that 75% of women are wearing the wrong size bra. That's not a real statistic. You can tell it's made up, because what are the odds it would be a dead-on round number like that, and how would you collect the data. Answer: some bra-fitter somewhere estimated that around 3/4 of the women who ask for a fitting were wearing the wrong size -- so approximately 3/4 of the women who thought they were wearing the wrong size were in fact wearing the wrong size, because women are not idiots.
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Date: 2012-02-22 06:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-22 07:04 am (UTC)But 75% of women at any given time? I don't buy it.
However, to your point, I completely buy that 25% of women are mistaken. It's amazing to me the ideas non-artists have about proportions, it really is. Being able to look at a thing and not see the thing you're looking at - amazing.
It is also worth the reminder that I have carefully structured my life so as not to interact with "the public" and am not a man of the people, and largely preserve my faith in humanity by being kept away from most of them. But having not met them, I can freely tell you that I'm sure they're bright and winning and noble.
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Date: 2012-02-22 07:12 am (UTC)Point 2: your superpower is like the most useless x-man power ever, although possibly the most unambiguously positive for society
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