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Statistics Issued Today
9.1% from yesterday
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Active Researchers
1.9% (budget cuts)
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Nations Served
3 new this quarter
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Accuracy Rating
within expectations
Daily Briefing
72.9% of leftovers are forgotten until they qualify as a science experiment.
Source: BOMUS Annual Report, Vol. XLVII, pp. 302-708
Last updated: 13:17:49 UTC
Research Findings
Science & Nature
63.8% of rocks have been in the same spot for over a million years and are fine with it.
Confidence Level: 64.71%
Prof. Edwin Stackwell
Workplace & Economy
The probability of a 'quick question' actually being quick is 3.1%.
Confidence Level: 52.25%
Dr. Constance Fiddler
Workplace & Economy
An estimated 67% of pie charts would be better represented as bar charts, but pie charts are more delicious.
Confidence Level: 45.56%
Prof. Edwin Stackwell
Meta-Statistics
78% of statistics cited in arguments are invented during the argument.
Confidence Level: 99.17%
Dr. Harriet Plimpton
Health & Wellness
Reading about symptoms online increases perceived illness severity by 580%.
Confidence Level: 65.01%
Prof. Reginald Numberman
Health & Wellness
Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is recommended by people who have never specified the size of the glass.
Confidence Level: 44.64%
Dr. Agatha Benchworth
Bureau Divisions
Division of Conditions and Whose Margin of Error
Proudly operating within a ± 100% margin of error.
Department of Untestable Hypotheses
If it can't be proven, it can't be disproven. Checkmate.
Office of International Statistical Fabrication
Supplying governments with the numbers they deserve since 1957.
Center for Conditions That Sound Real
Our researchers have advanced degrees in plausibility.
Bureau of Recursive Self-Reference
Please see the Bureau of Recursive Self-Reference for more information.
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