Originally Posted by
Rowan
Stats gives us bragging rights.
I could say that people who don't care about stats seem to be the arty types who compose poetry, paint pictures, and like to spend other people's money without accountabiity.
But I won't, because that might offend someone here.
Originally Posted by
billydonn
Right on man! A society that pays too much attention to Walt Whitman, Shakespeare, Picasso, Miles Davis and the like is headed for trouble! Waste and corruption will soon follow!
By definition, any person or any society that "pays
too much attention" to anything, numbers or art, is in fact likely to have paid too little attention to other areas so as to allow for waste and corruption to exist there. Which is Rowan's point.
So while you didn't intend it, I think, your words are supporting his point exactly.