liesdamned liesand statistics consider the plot on the left it shows the growth of internet usage in the united states from to as you can seea straight line provides pretty good fit the plot on the right uses this fit to project the percentage of the population using the internet in following years the projection is bit hard to believe it seems unlikely that by everybody in the was using the internetand even less likely that by more than of the population was using the internet the texas sharpshooter fallacy imagine that you are driving down country road in texas you see barn that has six targets painted on itand bullet hole at the very center of each target "yes sir,says the owner of the barn" never miss "that' right,says his spouse"there ain' man in the state of texas who' more accurate with paint brush got ithe fired the six shotsand then painted the targets around them professor puzzles over studentschalk throwing ability classic of the genre appeared in it reported that research team at the royal cornhill hospital in aberdeen had discovered that "anorexic women are most likely to have been born in the spring or early summer between eaglesjohnet al "season of birth in females with anorexia nervosa in northeast scotland,international journal of eating disorders september