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JMP - We're about to hear from Joel Best, author of Stat-Spotting. We're a few minutes late beginning. Stay tuned!

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JMP - Michael Schrage is introducing Joel Best, professor of sociology at the University of Delaware.

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JMP - Best is telling a story about a grad student who turned in a paper with the quote: Every year since 1950, the number of American children gunned down has doubled."

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Amy Bullock, JMP - If this statistic were true, the number of children being gunned down in 1995 would have been 35,000,000,000.

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JMP - In fact, the statistic (in 1995) was that SINCE 1950, the number of children killed by gunfire had doubled.

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Amy Bullock, JMP - Best jokes that all numbers ending in millions are equal when used in publications. Today a trillion is the new million. In fact, there have been 855 articles in the NY Times this year that have used the world "trillion".

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JMP - Best: "I know less about statistics than anyone else in the room."

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JMP - Joel Best addresses the Innovators' Summit audience.

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He's interested in how statistics are used, or, he adds, "some would say produced, in order to inform public attitudes."

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