Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
Discredited indeed. But a lot of the work I see has the methodology of the research identified and explained - how the data was gathered and how it has been interpreted. This gives me sufficient info to make an educated guess about the validity, or not, of the stats I'm presented with.

When I just see stats and no background, which is what you mostly get in the public domain, I too refuse to take them at face value.
Ahh, I agree with those statistics.