Apparently it is apocryphal, which I also googled and learned it is another way of saying 'not true.' Never happened. Bogus . Evidently, a few years ago, a left-wing muckraker spread the rumor that one of the President's aides advised him not to renew the Patriot Act--on account of it being unconstitutional--andthe President supposedly said, quote 'Stop throwing the Constitution in my face.
incredibly high esteem, even if the mathematics behind those statements is entirely bogus . And this is true not just for the lay public, but also for serious,well-trained researchers as well. We don't know how to interpret what numbers
contributing editor at the Atlantic please help me welcome to the stage Dr Ian bogust hey everybody I'm so glad to be here so I I'm a game designer and a computer historian and critic and I I wrote this book about play and it's also about
where we brought in a traditional marketing agency actually had a very hot advertising agency called Crispin Porter Bogusky and they came in and worked on the Google recruitment campaign that we did and that involves we put up a billboard that just had a question which was the first ten digit prime occurring in e.com and
And a number of us thought-- I mean, I was incredulous and came to the conclusion, or at least asked the question, if a prestigious journal could publish a obviously bogus result-- bogus in the sense that it's very unlikely that our entire understanding of the laws of physics had been refuted by some dinky study showing some undergraduates some porn-- what does that say about our standards of peer review,
You have very little to lose by adding an ingredient and tasting. to economists giving us bogus methods, and academics.
going in the face of public opposition when in fact we weren't winning at all. Not all bogus numbers are outright fabrications. Even the best studies from the most trustworthy people can contain falsehoods that shouldn't fool someone with even a basic knowledge of math. Here's about the highest quality
work, but you've saved me from all that. You don't have to. It's pretty much bogus analogies across the line anyway, but still. We don't, we don't have cycles you don't have bandwidth in your head. You use sugar, which is related, but sugar takes longer to get to places than, than bandwidth does to reallocate
In terms of education, this is a wonderful scientist named Arturo Casadevall who's at Johns Hopkins now. A lot of it's bogus .
But they don't have long life. And so it's kind of a bogus argument, but I hear it all the time. Starches have been the major calorie source.
Right. So the question what are you going to do with that as opposed to thinking there's some correlation one to one correlation between your major and your outcome is really completely bogus . Another one our favorite one. What's your passion? Okay. Who's either said this to somebody or heard it in the last week? Keep your hand up if you enjoyed
had all been a mistake-- more or less wiped out bank shareholders-- and actually, as we know, needed lots of money from taxpayers to keep them going. Another way of creating this kind of bogus wealth is what I generally describe as tailgating. I have a house in France.
And the change has been extraordinary to the point that now we have effective treatments for most things. but that's just a bogus criticism.
better be right you know we're doing chicken rice in New York we expect Singaporeans who have emigrated from Singapore or visiting from Singapore to say this is not bogus this is you know premium respectable I mean I've jokingly said you know we're hoping to do a Pohang which is if you don't know it's a sort of Korean tented Korean sweet
you start with what's your passion is the right place to begin this whole life navigation discussion and you know eight or nine out of 10 people don't even have an answer to that that's a really bogus way to go about it. It's a lousy question. We mostly think passion is an outcome of a well-lived life not the starting place. If you got one and it's definitive and it's clear and you can do
they had gone de press on a Friday night uh and finding a substitute material and but totally pulling pulling it realizing this was bogus history uh I asked for a copy from Mike Wallace he told me we can't give it to you we've got a a uh a confidentiality agreement I I said well
do with what happened on Wall Street and the shakeout that we're now now seeing throughout the country who were retired to the country club who made tens of millions of dollars pedalling what ended up being very bogus securities. because they booked profits and were able to get bonuses off that before everything hit the fan. Uh they're sort of immune from anyone looking back at what they've made
In terms of education, this is a wonderful scientist named Arturo Casadevall who's at Johns Hopkins now. Because the media celebrates the splashy findings even when they turn out to be bogus and there are many famous examples.
scientific literature, you see the same mistake made over and over again. This was a paper that was lied. There are other ways that bogus numbers get into the scientific literature. One of one of the most dangerous is known what's uh what's
In fact, the studies were bogus . They were crafted by the researchers to be mirror images of one another.
Sudan of a 911 that was made and that was just as bogus as the VW appear over
So he comes back with a plan that does work, but it's bogus .
And as I told you, GDP has a potential for being pretty bogus .
Don't go and resell it, because you'll see that this is bogus .
a couple of dollars, and he'll want to give you his bogus subway token, which has nothing on it, for like $2 so you save $1.
And at the time, I kept saying appearing in America before these people with their bogus and unconstitutional
And it was, it sort of varied between being totally inane and bogus , and being much, much
The answer to the, what is the meaning of life is it's just a bogus question. Like what is the meaning of x isn't a real question at all. That's why it's unsolvable. And it
What would happen if I showed up at a physics conference and said string theory is bogus ?
DENNIS E. TAYLOR: Well, I called it Time A Line, which is really bogus , but I needed a name.
they worry that the thing they've been doing all their life is, as it were, bogus or meaningless.
"Oh, um you know, creative writing." The next question is, you all know, "What are you going to do with that?" You may, you know, other than be unemployed. The um and that turns out to be a bogus point of view. I mean, there are career related majors and many of you have had them probably except 75% of all college
But we just stood there in awe, trespassing on Einstein's lawn, two bogus press badges still hanging around our necks.
I found out that that thing your parents told you about having to drink eight glasses of water a day, it's bogus .
know loophole in terms of making claims Steve isn't isn't the claim of just boosting the immune system under heavy debate oh yeah it's bogus there's no
butt is like." Uh you'd laugh him out of the bar. But once he does the same with a formula, it becomes national news. And in fact, this formula is just one of dozens and dozens and dozens of bogus formula that are nothing more than attempts to get media attention. For example, here's the formula for
There was other statistical nonsense going on that I won't get go into. But the real important thing is that there was even exculpatory evidence in a couple of these cases. And the some of these women were at least uh clearly wrongfully convicted based upon bogus statistics. This sort of argumentation is well known enough to have earned the title the prosecutor's fallacy. And in
street. You talk like a white girl. Oh my God, I do not, that is so bogus . Shut up.
They're born uncopywrited. OK? So you know Amazon's reasons were just completely bogus .
in the world of skeptics and debunkers, and he appeared many times on television and radio as a bogus psychic. In fact, he worked with the famous magician, James Randy, and he and
assumptions that you're putting into these models?" And economic assumptions, when you looked at them, were completely bogus . Cite one example that I cite in my book, a study
of Florida found something that worked spectacularly well. It hired an advertising agency by the name of Crispin Porter and Bogusky.
millions of dollars pedalling what ended up being very bogus securities. because they booked profits and were able to get bonuses off that before everything hit the fan. Uh they're sort of immune from anyone looking back at what they've made while the rest of the country is left holding the bag. We see banking CEOs every day, whether it's Ken Lewis at