"average president has been convicted of .75 felonies" factoid actualy just statistical error. average president has been convicted of 0 felonies. Felonies Donald, who lives in Florida & commits 34 felonies, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
The bad part of this joke is how previous presidents just got pardoned by the next one. If we'd hung Nixon out to dry maybe things would be 2% less insane now.
(Although that's like saying "if we'd actually stuck with Reconstruction...")
The Mean President has been convicted of 0.75* felonies.
The Median President has gotten away with all of theirs.
* Temporary number, to be updated multiple times later.
Reminds me of Ioannidis claiming what was happening in Italy and NY at the beginning of the pandemic should be excluded as they were outliers for reasons
Ashamed to say I don’t remember who wrote “How to Lie with Statistics” or much about its contents specifically—oh, wikipedia tells me it was Darrell Huff in 1954 so I guess I read it in high school in the ’60s— but it seems like this would fit right in.
