Reply #15: "Beware the tyranny of the majority" Let's talk numbers...

[McKenzie]

The Sun is a shitty Brit tabloid. Yet it outsells the quality broadsheets by a factor of 4-5. Does that mean the rag in question is a quality publication? Rhetoric on my part, of course, because it has pics of "babes" (ahem) with their breasts hanging out on page three. All it means is that more people like shite news and loads of "whoarrr" rather than sensible and informed comment. It says nothing about truth.

Numbers add up to nothing (apologies Neil) and using them as a measure of what is right is pointless. Simply because more people do something, support something or subscribe to any given viewpoint means shit all. Numbers do not equal right, correct, appropriate, decent, optimum, ideal, correct, truth or anything similar; all they mean is numbers.