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    Rhetoric & Omission Entry #0585

    The reason a statistic needs a comparison to mean anything

    A number alone is a fact without a frame. The comparison supplied beside it is what gives it size, direction and significance.

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    A number alone is not an argument. The comparison beside it is the argument, and the person who chose the comparison chose the conclusion.

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