Statistical Lies

Postit

How much of what is posted on this forum, in terms of statistics with regard to, for example distance/time covered etc do you think is lies/exaggeration? e.g. "I covered X km in Y time"?

Lumen

What sort of disordered personality would lie on the internet (under a pseudonym) about how fast they can cycle?

AstraMonti

Who cares anyway?

kenmc

I voted, but I lied in the vote.

Beasty

All stats I quote on here are 110% accurate - so where's that option?

C3PO

Strava never lies!

Lumen

C3PO wrote: »

Strava never lies!

I lost a KOM to someone who drove their commute. At least they were honest about it (I think the ride name was "Drive to work").

The 65kph speed down Chesterfield Avenue was a but of a clue (illegal too).

unichall

Lumen wrote: »

I lost a KOM to someone who drove their commute. At least they were honest about it (I think the ride name was "Drive to work").

The 65kph speed down Chesterfield Avenue was a but of a clue (illegal too).

Im 4th on the list for my commute, behind 95km/h, 105km/h and 111km/h. Ill just have to train harder

killalanerr

The tinternet you belive the bits that suit you the rest is all bull

dave_o_brien

Literally 100% of what I say is false.

Captain Havoc

78.6% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway.

Lusk Doyle

Captain Havoc wrote: »

78.6% of statistics are made up on the spot anyway.

43% of all people know that.

dastardly00

Statistical lies appear in every sports forum OP.
For example, over in the golf forum, it is well known that 84.2% of all short putts don't go in the hole.

Lusk Doyle

Lumen wrote: »

What sort of disordered personality would lie on the internet (under a pseudonym) about how fast they can cycle?

Some people in the cycling training logs section might just do it for kicks

Lumen

Lusk Doyle wrote: »

Some people in the cycling training logs section might just do it for kicks

Leave Beasty out of this!

Lusk Doyle

His waffle is too complicated to be a lie!

seamus

Lumen wrote: »

What sort of disordered personality would lie on the internet (under a pseudonym) about how fast they can cycle?

The iPhone has an inbuilt app called the Game Center that lets you have a gaming profile and stores your scores for the games on your phone and lets you see them on leaderboards and stuff.

Someone found out that you could hack this and post whatever scores you wanted to this, for any game. They're meaningless leaderboards (i.e. no fame or money), posted under anonymous nicks.

Yet for every game there are a handful of people who have posted scores in the trillions or billions, just because.

Moral: Some people are just gob****es.

piston

seamus wrote: »

Moral: Some people are just gob****es.

That is 100% the truest thing I've read all day.

unichall

piston wrote: »

That is 100% the truest thing I've read all day.

Are you 100% sure or just exaggerating?

on_the_nickel

seamus wrote: »

The iPhone has an inbuilt app called the Game Center that lets you have a gaming profile and stores your scores for the games on your phone and lets you see them on leaderboards and stuff.

Someone found out that you could hack this and post whatever scores you wanted to this, for any game. They're meaningless leaderboards (i.e. no fame or money), posted under anonymous nicks.

Yet for every game there are a handful of people who have posted scores in the trillions or billions, just because.

Moral: Some people are just gob****es.

Absolutely! What goes through people's minds?

Do you have a link?

fixie fox

C3PO wrote: »

Strava never lies!

Except when the Garmin is in a car

Raam

I once cycled so fast that I met myself coming back from my spin. Beat that.

Lusk Doyle

Raam wrote: »

I once cycled so fast that I met myself coming back from my spin. Beat that.

You suck ass. 100% of people know that.

macnab

I believe the percentage to be exactly 19.16667%, how do I register this??