82% Of Statistics You Hear Are Made Up

There was a study done, by a mattress company, that said that people who sleep in separate beds sleep better. Emphasis on "by a mattress company." How many stats are true? It seems not many... 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's something you ought to know, and I got to
plead guilty to it. To a certain extent, eighty two
percent of statistics you here.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Are made up more or less nice. I have done
this before.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm not proud of it, because the stats to discuss
are interesting enough that I just go with them.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
But this happens all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
So I got this sheet of paper here, and I
was thinking of bringing it up, but for some reason
today my conscience is bigger.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Than usual and won't allow me to. But the headline.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
The headline is should separate beds make a comeback? Forty
eight percent of people say they sleep better without their partner,
And then it goes through a bunch of stats. Eighty
two percent of people admit, oh no, no, no, there's
a different number. About forty percent of people look forward
to when their partner is going to be out of
town they say they sleep better, and a bunch of

(00:49):
other stats that sound close to write or whatever. But
then you get down to who did this, dang pole.
This poll was done by the Avocado Green Mattress company.
So all kinds of issue polling is really really difficult
if that's what you do for a living, and you
spend a lot of money on it and dedicate your
life to it. It's very hard to get accurate polling

(01:11):
if you're the Avocadau mattress company and you ask five
people in the break room what they thought, and then
drop these stuts and then this is what's happened. Happens
people like Joe and I or TV stations. You'll hear
this somewhere today, repeat this crap and act like it's true,
and then everybody discusses it, and they just bothers me
because it puts in weird things in your head that

(01:31):
just aren't accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, and I thought you were going to bias. They
sell mattresses, they will sell twice as many if you're
sleeping separately, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, come on yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah, you're right though. All you have to
do is publish some study and if it's got an
intriguing premise or it's like, I don't know what would
be hot right now, airline problems, problems with Boeing or

(01:53):
Kate Middleton. Editing the photo. You know, four out of
five couples edit the photo. You'll get that on news
all across the country. It doesn't matter whether you did
the study or not.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Right, and it's in the study was done by face Tune,
the app face Tune Yeah it turns out yeah. They
their survey showed everybody wants to whatever. Just remember that
when you hear unless somebody sites where the study came from,
it's usually from some company or entity with a vested
interest in the out

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Armstrong and Getty