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Drug and cosmetic companies are notorious for using all types of misleading comparisons. Since 1997, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) legalized drug ads, ... These drug companies will also skew their results into misleading statistics. Suppose a study is conducted on a drug that is supposed to reduce the risk of...
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Selling Booze to Our Babies - Because scientific evidence consistently fails to support Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth’s assertion that alcohol ads cause young people to drink or to drink more, it resorts to presenting a plethora of irrelevant and misleading statistics about alcohol ads.
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www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1115215222.html
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For example, most such groups oppose alcohol beverage ads. However, decades of research by governments, ... Without peer review, a political report full of erroneous and misleading statistics can be passed off to the public as a scientific report. That's exactly what most alcohol activist groups do.
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www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/1070552005.html
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The agreement listed more than a dozen misleading statements from magazine, radio, and television ads ... Statistics show that 9 out of 10 Americans don't get all the nutrients they need from what they eat, and, in fact, are missing out on important vitamins and minerals.
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www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/cen...
www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/PhonyAds/centrum.html
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Notice how the CDC statistics are being skewed and presented in a misleading way. If you just look at the graph alone without evaluating what it's saying, you would have to conclude that smoking is THE leading cause of death among Americans. ... Smoking Conspiracy >> Smoking Kills >> Misleading statistics by the CD...
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Though still unfortunately misleading, I think. And yes, there are many worse (ab)uses of statistics around. Still, that's no reason for me to not complain about this one ;-)
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www.philosophyetc.net/2006/01/misleading-statistics-sec...
www.philosophyetc.net/2006/01/misleading-statistics-second-order.html
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Recently, Liz Pulliam Weston evaluated a survey about consumer credit card debt that used a mistaken assumption to create misleading data about average household debt. ... Should people who play the 0% APR arbitrage game be included in statistics for credit card debt? They do hold the debt, but the debt was not obtained from...
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www.consumerismcommentary.com/2007/07/31/another-case-o...
www.consumerismcommentary.com/2007/07/31/another-case-of-misleading-statistics/
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According to the Advertising Project, one out of three McCain ads has been negative, ... Statistics exist because humans are naturally sort of bad about thinking about numbers. ... I would honestly rather be ignorant of the nitty-gritty details than try to navigate all of the manipulated and misleading information out there.
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scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/2008/07/confusing_and_misleading_stati.php
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Graphs sometimes make misleading comparisons. ... Back to first slide ... View graphic version...
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www.econ.rochester.edu/eco108/ch2/micro02/tsld032.htm
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