{"id":1392,"date":"2007-05-07T10:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2007-05-07T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T17:29:32","slug":"whats-the-antidote-for-a-dubious-statistic-a-countervailing-dubious-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1392\/whats-the-antidote-for-a-dubious-statistic-a-countervailing-dubious-statistic\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the antidote for a dubious statistic? A countervailing dubious statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventy-seven percent of home-buyers start their home search on the internet<\/a>. Except, sixty-nine percent of Americans think the internet is a pain in the ass<\/a>. What’s the real truth?<\/a> I like to say that forty-seven percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. It’s not true, but, unlike all the other dubious statistical “news”, it’s funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seventy-seven percent of home-buyers start their home search on the internet. Except, sixty-nine percent of Americans think the internet is a pain in the ass. What’s the real truth? I like to say that forty-seven percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. It’s not true, but, unlike all the other dubious statistical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2518,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2518\/net-borne-buyers-create-new-burdens-for-listing-agents\/","url_meta":{"origin":1392,"position":0},"title":"Net-borne buyers create new burdens for listing agents","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0Net-borne buyers create new burdens for listing agents \"Eighty percent of buyers start their home search on the internet.\" You don't have to dig too deeply in the real estate world to unearth that statistic. 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