What Is This Statistic Telling Me?

If your personal experience doesn't really match the official statistic you're reading, when should that make you suspicious of the statistic? And when should it cause you to go, oh hh, guess my personal experience was unrepresentative. Ethis is actually a good sege into another thing i wanted to talk to you about, which is, i guess, a different kind of reality check... The statistics are often quite thin. They they're giving you a very er partial view of the world. Sometimes they're just wrong. But even when they're not wrong, sometimes they're misleading in one way or another that's worth thinking about. Often your own personal experience can help you get