{"id":1120,"date":"2007-07-27T18:56:49","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/07\/27\/how-to-lie-with-statistics\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T19:58:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:58:54","slug":"how-to-lie-with-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/07\/how-to-lie-with-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"How to lie with statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current Greenpeace campaign attacks German car manufacturer Porsche as building climate killer machines. Porsche responds with large posters &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/fotostrecke\/0,5538,23478,00.html\">see the online figures<\/a> &#8211; that they<!--more--><br \/>\n1. contribute less than 0.1% of traffic related CO<sub>2<\/sub> emission<br \/>\n2. have the lowest CO<sub>2<\/sub> emission per KW engine power<br \/>\n3. will reduce CO<sub>2<\/sub> emission until 2012 by 20%<br \/>\nResponses seem to be more a fake, but nicely illustrate how environmental science often works &#8211; simply distorted relationships on the macro- and microlevel followed by some vague forward looking statements. BTW the 20% reduction may not be related to the current emissions &#8211; honi soit qui mal y pense &#8211; it may even relate to some projected output in 2012 that is 100% higher than today. Numbers even do not matter as nobody will renember that in 2012 &#8211; and even then you will be narrow minded meticulous if you renember this day, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Greenpeace campaign attacks German car manufacturer Porsche as building climate killer machines. Porsche responds with large posters &#8211; see the online figures &#8211; that they &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1179,1184,1178,1180],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign_attacks","tag-climate","tag-german_car_manufacturer","tag-greenpeace_campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}