12 is the meaningless number
I was recently shown some data about levels of consumer trust in various companies, institutions and information sources. One of the findings was that 12% of people believe what they read on blogs.
Hmmm.
Does that mean that 88% of the people reading this post think I made that statistic up?
What if I tell you that 2+2=5? How many readers believe that?
Surely the truth is that most people believe some of the stuff they read on blogs some of the time and the problem with a question as dumb as the one that yielded that finding is it tells us nothing at all.
Anyone got any more dumb questions they'd like to submit? (And that one doesn't count.)
