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swiftcoder on May 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reservoir Sampling

Fairly sure the previous poster is describing statistics that were made up, rather than measured/sampled. Those are, for hopefully obvious reasons, not very trustworthy

stefs on May 9, 2025 [–]

so, the actual lesson to be learned was more along the lines of "never trust lies".

codr7 on May 9, 2025 | [–]

Sure, but in this case the lies ended up packaged as the official tourism statistics report from the government, and I'm pretty sure it was neither the first nor last time that happened.

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