Percentages, Not Points
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Don't focus on the wrong numbers, like most TV announcers do.
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The stock market is often driven by emotions, not data. Learn to recognize that, and you can profit from it.
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Statistics don't tell the real story about the state of your finances.
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Some mistakes are not always mistakes.
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Most industries have some not-so-rosy practices.
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One of the problems with trying to have a rational discussion about taxes is that so many people want to believe what's convenient rather than what's accurate. Believing, after all, requires so much less effort than thinking.
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It's only a difference of four percentage points, but it feels 40. Who would rather have .197 than .201 next to their name?
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Sterile statistics don't shield a therapist from a sense of failure.
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_ Quinnipiac Polling Institute: Kerry 51 percent, Bush 46 percent, undecided 4 percent. Oct. 16-20 poll of 841 likely voters. Sampling error margin plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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Is it more appealing to hear that a product is selling at a 50 percent discount or to hear that it has been marked down twice, first by 25 percent and then by a further 33 percent? The two options come out to the same result, of course. But a paper in the Journal of Consumer Research reports that consumers tend to prefer the second option, since they often proceed by the flawed arithmetical process of adding the two sale percentages together to get 58 percent.
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Do not always expect straight talk from your doctor about treatments he or she disapproves of -- 14 percent of physicians believe it is acceptable to withhold information about topics such as birth control, abortion and sedating dying patients, according to a study published on Wednesday.
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Don't assume that a stock's surging EPS is great news.
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That was the question during the first round of the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club on Thursday afternoon. The answer is: Not at the top of the leaderboard.
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Yesterday -- USAToday/CNN/ Gallup poll of registered and likely voters: Bush 52 percent, Kerry 44 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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A week ago, analysts expected a 0.5 percentage point trim. Now they're not so sure.
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Corrects comparison year to 2005 instead of 2006 in paragraph 12
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HINGHAM -- Gertrude Stein wrote that a rose is a rose is a rose. That isn't true about golf scores. A 73 isn't always a 73 because there are so many ways to get there.