The use of statistics in the effort to sway opinion. Commonly used by politicians and economists with an agenda, seeking to use numbers, etc. in the attempt to put their own spin on a situation.
The other day, Senator Richardson was on the news trying to defend his position on relaxing tobacco taxes. Despite the growing number of deaths each year due to smoking, he cited numerous spintistics to suggest it is not as bad as what has been reported.
People in the sportistic spectrum may see and understand sports events but the action has no emotional content for them and they may find it upsetting.
Mate, she just wonfive gold medals and you're not bothered! Are you sportistic or something?
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)