Lazy Reporting (or: Step Off My Breasts)

[rinue]

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.

Comments

[bevjunior]

for whatever minuscule amount it counts in this conversation as i do not have breasts, I can say from the perspective of someone who works with a fair number of breasts on a regular basis that there is a significant amount (probably, but perhaps not definitively, greater than 25%) of women who believe they are wearing the right size bra and would never, ever ask the sweet lady at JCPenney who probably came up with the measurement statistic in the first place, let alone ask this little homo right here, but whom are deeply, deeply wrong about the size of their bazungas :) and also, probably at least 25% of this homo was wrong about some portion of his grammar in the above. HI!

[knaveofstaves]

That title makes me wish you had a t-shirt with "don't tread on us" printed right across the gams. =)