Sharks like ice cream, but only after you eat it….
- Whenever ice cream sales rise, so do shark attacks (eating ice cream makes you tastier?)
- As more economists are recruited to the Treasury, inflation rises (economists cause inflation?)
- In Scandinavia, storks appear more often on the rooftops of families with more babies (storks bring babies?)
- As vocabulary increases in infancy, so does appetite (words make you hungry?)
Think about it….. Assumption one - All feminists hate men. Assumption two - I am a feminist. Therefore I hate men right? Uh huh, no I don’t actually. I may be wary and distrustful until proven wrong but hate? No. It’s like the pink elephant thing - all elephants are pink, and Nellie is an elephant - what colour is Nellie? Base your entire argument/news report on a false or misleading interpretation or link some unrelated data and it’s ALL wrong.
And actually, it’s used by the media as yet another means of controlling the masses - This food is now proven to be bad for you, look we have numbers! Criminal activity is common in children of single parent families, especially those living in council houses - Look, more numbers - that you probably won’t understand because; a. You’re poorly educated or you wouldn’t be single and in a council house now would you? and b. We’ve masked all the actual relevant facts in gobbledegook and statspeak, making it inaccessible to most people but it certainly makes a pretty chart now doesn’t it?
The sharks to watch out for aren’t the ones in the water; liking the flavour if ice cream eating humans - now it couldn’t possibly be that ice cream sales go up on hot days and that’s when people go to the beach and swim now could it? Could it? Anyway, it’s not those sharks you need to watch out for, it’s the ones showing you the numbers…..
