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

[knaveofstaves]

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

[rinue]

That would be great, and with the coiling snake and all. Maybe I will make one.

[rinue]

Although I should point out that "gams" means legs. From the Italian "gambe."

[knaveofstaves]

Chalk it up to yet another example of me using context clues to draw a perfectly reasonable incorrect conclusion. =/

[rinue]

I know. I could immediately understand how that happened and I had total sympathy.