@enigmatico wasn't there a book titled "#LyingWithNumbers" that showcased that shit?

@yogthos Since there is no #PressFreedom, there's no way to independently verify said figures.

Also OFC if people earned $0,10 an hour 25 years ago and now $0,40 that's OFC a major increase and gets above the arbitrary absolute powerty line...

See I too can do #LyingWithNumbers ...

@yogthos So does every nation to some extent.

Granted if you know me and my opinions [I don't expect you to have checked out my entire feed] you'd know that I think #HumanRights are not negotiable.

Basics like housing, food, water, freedom of movement, ban of forced labour, right to defend oneself and one's mutuals, etc.

I don't deny said ties - that would be foolish.

I just think that by every metric and skew #Taiwan is freer than the #PRC...

Everything else would be #LyingWithNumbers...

@SwiftOnSecurity #programming is #creative and #intellectual labour.

Measuring a programmer's efficiency or value with easy #metrics like #LinesOfCode (#IBM) or #Commits (#Huawei) doesn't work.

In fact the latter ones did that #LyingWithNumbers for #KPI so hard on the @linux / #Linux #Kernel that they were close to getting #banned from the #LKML and #git.

Instead they got called out that their "code cleanup" commits are not appreciated as code #readability is being a priority in #Linux!

@mpoletiek would still not be #CarbonNegative but simply offset #Renewables, like outsorcing production to overseas (i.e. "P.R." #China and #India) just to reduce domestic industrial emissions...

#LyingWithNumbers...

@NefariousAryq #LyingWithNumbers works well in #Politricks, because if #Cops want to find a reason to bust someone, they'll make one up on the spot.

Like dropping some stuff in someone's car or toilet or trashcan to justify jailing someone.

It's not as if cops can't get their hands on criminalized merchanise to make up a victimless crime and brutalize someone!

@steve It's #LyingWithNumbers because one can literally buy "#CO2 #Neutrality" with products.

The product didn't get more envoirmentally, but one can just literally buy an Indulgence instead.

@crookedfootball that's how #LyingWithNumbers works, I guess...

It's like the #HDI prioritizing #LiteracyRate over #CivilRights and #HumanRights...

@chronovore @marcan whatever label fits the project / issue...

Would I've loved to have 0 issues?
OFC!

Will that ever happen on any serious project that gets feedback?
Unlikely...

The only thing one can do with closing issues that ain't resolved is "#LyingWithNumbers"...
https://tech.lgbt/@chronovore/110752185259944343

@juddlegum also it ignores the fact that marginalized communities will be policed tougher and every case where a white cop feels "threatened" to draw a gun also falls under it.

#LyingWithNumbers is something one learns in 11th grade math, history and biology classes.

@kadamssl this is intentional, cuz otherwise we'd have an unignoreable mountain of evicende that 'Rona - regardless in #LongCovid or #Covid [reinfection] is far more #lethal long-term than the initial cases show.

It's what I call #LyingWithNumbers, basically to make the line go down just so that politicians can normalize #democide & #genocide through inaction.

@parkermolloy Yeah...

I suspect #LyingWithCharts is like #LyingWithNumbers and by selectively choosing questions and answers the desired outcome is achieveable...

@radicalrobit this ain't #LyingWithNumbers but blatant bullshitting.

If I were to make such graphs, teachers would've given me an F- under it, telling me to stop insulting them and take subjects serious!

@NatSecGeek so basically #LyingWithNumbers just to claim "we're obeying #transparency demands"...