![]() ![]() This is clearly not a small error, this is How To Lie With Statistics. How could two survey end up with a 16.5X result? One saying 33% were unaware, one saying only 2% were unaware. The Sunday newspaper was outraged at this statistic, so they conducted their own survey, and found that 98% of their readers DID know exactly what the metric system was and what its implications were for the country. Gallup surveyed the Britons and found that 33% of people didn’t even KNOW what the metric system was, let alone how to use it or how it might become the country’s new standard for weights and measures. At the time this was considered to be a huge shift (today there are only three countries stuck in the Imperial past that haven’t got with the times… Myanmar, Liberia, and world’s largest economy, America). Obviously that’s a pretty massive change, to shift from miles to kilometers, pounds to kilos, and from measuring things in ancient, archaic, out-dated ways to measuring in a more standard and modern way. In the 1950s, when this book was written, Britain was considering changing over from the Imperial measurement system to the Metric System. Benjamin Disraeli: “There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” ![]()
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