Just because I think that government taxation is somehow different and better than theft doesn't mean I'm a statist!
by Ancap January 20, 2007
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Rasmussen Statistics include positive poll selection, house bias and sampling distortion and are generally inaccurate and counter factual.
Rasmussen Statistics include positive poll selection, house bias and sampling distortion and are generally inaccurate and counter factual.
Named for celebrity pollster Scott Rasmussen who selectively did not poll PA-12 because he knew the liberal candidate would win.
Rasmussen statistics are often cited by teabaggers, conservatives, and other followers of the Tea Party Movement....for example, "the Tea Party Movement is bipartisan and multi-racial" is an example of Rasmussen Statistics.
Rasmussen statistics are often cited by teabaggers, conservatives, and other followers of the Tea Party Movement....for example, "the Tea Party Movement is bipartisan and multi-racial" is an example of Rasmussen Statistics.
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The study of percentages, bars, graphs, and charts, all in an attempt to make some sort of logical conclusion out of a bunch of numbers so that even more percentages, bars, graphs, and charts can be made.
by AYB July 29, 2003
Get the statistics mug.The disease of person (often politician or journalist) who is constantly spewing statistics and refuses to back up their arguments with anything else.
Person 1: Dude, Bush refuses to use anything but numbers to prove that the Iraq war was a good idea.
Person 2: I know, he's totally got statisticular cancer.
Person 2: I know, he's totally got statisticular cancer.
by montycus October 10, 2007
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Get the Stabastocktoberfestapalooza mug.Fate, or extremely low chances, or likelihood, of an event happening on its own due to statistical data proving otherwise.
I didn't think I was ever going to see you again! Then you turn up on my doorstep like-
A statistical anomaly?
Well I was gunna say fate, but yes.
A statistical anomaly?
Well I was gunna say fate, but yes.
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