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The 5 most common ways marketers and researchers lie with statistics

Today, I was able to flesh out my notes from "How to Lie With Statistics" using https://shortform/edlatimore

Here are 5 of the most common ways marketers lie and manipulate you with statistics 𝟏) 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠

Honest statisticians use a representative sample of the population. Using the whole population is too resource-intensive.

To ensure the sample represents the whole, they're supposed to...

Success is never an accident

If you want to move from where you are to where you want to be in life, you need to have a plan.

The Four Confidences is the system I used to build confidence in my academic, boxing, writing, and sobriety pursuits.

(A thread) Confidence #1: The Process

You need to believe that life can and will get better.

No matter how many times I felt hopeless, the belief that "One day this will all have been worth it," kept coming back to me. And it turned out to be true.

10 steps to becoming untouchable:

1. Be ruthless with your standards but give no fucks about anything else.

2. Admit to, embrace, & respect your fears. Everyone is afraid of something. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar or a loser. 3. Master your vices. Either get control of them or avoid them. You can only go as far as your worst habit.

4. Listen to your instincts and trust your intuition. Just because you can't logically explain it doesn't mean that it's not important.

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The secret to engaging writing is about as counterintuitive as it can be.

This short thread teaches what I've learned by "analysizing" my most engaged with content.

This is the opinion of a guy who makes at least 2 posts a day about crack, so keep that in mind. 1st, engaging writing is writing that generates a response.

The more energy the response requires, the more engaging the content.

So that results in this formula:

Comments/reviews/word of mouth >>> retweets/reposts/shares >> likes/reactions > impressions/time on page

Keeping a level head is undoubtedly one of the most crucial skills you can develop in life.

It can make a huge difference, sometimes even saving your life, in situations where you might not even be aware of the danger.
After all, you never know who you're dealing with

THREAD -Someone who might have a gun
-They don't care about going to jail
-They're "mobbed up"
-They're protected from the law, by the law

It's not difficult to imagine encountering someone in any of these scenarios, particularly given the easy availability of firearms in the U.S.

The problem with building in public–TRULY building from the ground up–is that your path is influenced by your audience.

Their praises, criticisms, rewards, and your subtle fear of losing their approval (and it's there, even if you don't acknowledge it) affect your choices. You won't take the hard paths because those don't make for good content.

Or it takes so long to become proficient that you lose interest because your audience does.

Your insights aren't earned because doing something to REALLY earn them hurts.

Time, energy, audience, & money.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with the other person.

The moment you start talking about it's weak to forgive someone, you're already not qualified to speak on it.

You practice forgiveness for your own state of mind and emotions. The person or event you forgive will never (and should never) know. Even if they did, it doesn't matter.

It's not like justice, an idea for the physical world. You can't substitute one for the other.

You need justice to deter atrocities in the physical world. But forgiveness...

🚨 My Educated Guess On Why Going Private on Twitter is Making You More Visible To Your Followers 🚨

This wasn't going to be a thread, but I need the space to make sure my ideas are clear.

So, people are going private and reporting massive increases in impressions.

Why? First, understand the difference between impressions and engagements:

Impressions are how many people see the tweet and engagements are how many people interact (click, retweet, quote tweet, comment, like) it.

Impressions will ALWAYS be greater than engagements.

For an article soon to be published on my site, I made a list of things I'd tell my younger self.

1. Learn to deal with your problems with alcohol.
2. Don’t be afraid of confrontation.
3. Don’t doubt what you are capable of.
4. Develop genuine confidence. 5. Random sex is overrated
6. Relationships are underrated.
7. You're not missing anything working on yourself
8. Your sister needs your guidance because your parents weren't shit.
9. You can trust some adults
10. Being respected is hard but better than being liked.

There are two types of objective truths;

1) What's true to you.

How you feel Since you'd be lying if said otherwise, it's true *for you*.

When you "speak your truth," it's just your opinion.

The fact that you referred to it as "your truth" tells us that it's probably dumb. 2) What's true without you

These are things congruent for all observers capable of understanding them, regardless of how they feel about them.

Or, if there is a difference, it's by a calculated and predictable amount (Theory of relativity, I'm looking at you).

5 things you learn if you're dumb enough to pick a fistfight with a trained fighter

Obviously, you should never street fight, but let's pretend you're lucky enough to get a fair one.

Well, if one of you is trained and the other isn't, it will be anything but fair. Here's why 🧵 1) Fighters move

Street fights are usually one-directional. You either move towards or away from the guy. But fighters move in all directions.

They know it's easier to hit a from different angles. Even when standing still, fighters use their core & legs to hit and not get hit.

Your life is miserable because you fell for the modern agenda, not knowing it was a deal with the devil

You were promised freedom from responsibility & duty in exchange for giving up meaning & significance

Here are 5 reasons why your life sucks. Solutions are implied

/THREAD/ 1) You're afraid to get hurt

You never had to struggle in your life, so any type of struggle hurts.

-You never had a fistfight, so words feel like violence.
-Participation trophies shielded you from the pain of losing.
-You slide in DMs to avoid rejection.

The result?

What feels like play to you but is work to other people?

The answer to this is where you can make the most amount of money with the least amount of effort.

It's hard to compete with someone who is tickled by the struggle. What are you obsessed with that others hardly even think about?

The answer to this is where you have the greatest opportunity to make an impact on the world.

When you can't stop thinking about a problem, the biggest waste of energy is trying to.

I generally don't believe in focusing on your strengths and ignoring/outsourcing your weaknesses.

It becomes either a point of weakness to attack/cause a bottleneck or a place where people can exploit your ignorance.

That last one is a much bigger problem that I see here:

🧵 You don't know what you don't know.

If you take nothing else from this short thread, this saying is why I'm completely against ignoring or outsourcing your weaknesses.

You don't have to make them as strong as your strengths, but you'll pay (literally and figuratively) for this.

🚨 5 horrifying events involving PCP that will make crackheads look tame. 🚨

After reading this thread, you'll wonder if PCP is the result of some supersoldier serum that went horribly wrong.

Let's dive in and get wet

//THREAD// First, what is PCP?

PCP is the street term for Phencyclidine or phenylcyclohexyl piperidine.

AKA "Angeldust"

it's technically a hallucinogen, but that feels like calling fentanyl a depressant. Technically true, but vastly understanding its potency.

Just know it's wild shit.

I just got to 200k followers on Twitter.

Here are 20 quick writing lessons I've learned along the way that have helped me to network, connect, inspire, grow, and monetize this journey.

Read this thread if you want to unleash the full life-changing power of social media.

🧵 1. Write what you know, not what is trendy. By the time it's a trend, everyone is writing about it and no one cares anymore.

2. Make jokes. If all of your tweets are about self-improvement and politics, then you're missing out on one of the best ways to connect with people.

Someone on Facebook posted

"How to become happy? I doubled my income in 2 months, but I am still unhappy. Money and shopping is not working."

I gave him the following suggestions to find happiness.

He probably won't do them because they're challenging, but you should

THREAD First, let me make something clear:

In the year 2022, money is so easy to make.

It's so easy to make that it can't possibly bring you satisfaction.

If your only accomplishment is making a million dollars online, you're a boring mothafucker.

That's why you're unhappy.

🚨 The truth about losing friends as you improve in life. 🚨

They say that once you start to do better in life, you'll lose your old friends for all sorts of reasons.

I've made great progress in my life in the past decade. From my experience, here's what happens.

//THREAD// 1) You won't lose friends from childhood who also did something with their life.

It doesn't have to be the same goal or level of grandiosity, but game recognize–and more importantly, respects–game.

You won't have superficial things in common, but you'll have insights & a bond.

Most boxing matches are:

-Slugfests lacking skill
-Dull technical masterpieces
-Ridiculous mismatches

But some are skilled battles between two evenly matched fighters where heart & will decide the outcome.

These 10 must-watch fights that will make a fan out of anyone
🧵 Ali-Frazier III: The Thrilla in Manilla

This was their third and final time meeting.

Ali won the fight after Eddie Futch—Frazier’s coach—called an end to the bout after seeing the damage Frazier took in round 14.

🚨 The 4 traits you must have to lead yourself and others. 🚨

Other things are nice to have, but an effective leader only needs these four traits to navigate challenges and motivate those around him.

THREAD// 1) Direction

It’s not enough to have a goal. You also need something that you’re running away from.

You simultaneously need something you’re running towards and something that you’re trying to avoid.

Plans are foiled when either there are no plans or something interrupts them.

🚨 WHY YOU NEED TO GET HURT TO GET BETTER 🚨

Your life sucks because you are afraid of getting hurt.

Your body is weak.
Your mind is frail.
Your emotions are out of control.
Your spirit is corrupt.

Because you're afraid of pain.

//THREAD// 1) Pain civilizes

When there are consequences for being an asshole, you’re less likely to be an asshole.

In fact, you go out of your way to behave respectfully.

This isn’t about getting punched in the face. Pain can come in the way of social ostracization & unemployment,