Comment Lies, damn lies and statistics... (Score 1) 348
This way of presenting the statistics seems a bit too sensationalist.
From TFA: "Accident rates up 68%"
Sure sounds serious, no? They could have written: "Accident rates rises 1.9%"
Not that interesting all of a sudden, but it's the same numbers.
Then the source of the title of this post: "iPhone 4 broken screen rate up by 82%"
Reading the fine print reveals that "3.9% of iPhone 4 owners reported a cracked screen within 4 months, as opposed to just 2.1% of iPhone 3gs owners."
From 2.1% to 3.9%. Again not that interesting, but no numbers for a headline.
What would be interesting is how accident rates compare between smarphone makers. This is just massaging numbers to get a headline.