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6 in 10 Americans believe any old nonsense as long as you present it with confidence.

73% of numerical statistics go unverified

If you put a decimal in your statistic, it becomes 82.6% more believable.

71.2% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.

"You can pretty much come up with whatever quote you want and pretend someone famous said it. Nobody checks anyway."

-Sun Tzu

I don't believe you because the end of your sentence wasn't emphatic enough. Period. Mic drop.