Science proves bacon is a miracle food

[vaskidmark]

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/10/bacon-is-a-miracle-food/

Food is so personal and subjective that we’re always talking about it in vague and imprecise ways. But one of the many amazing things you can do with big-ish data is give precise questions to answers that always seemed so subjective. Take, for instance, the question of bacon. Everything is always better with bacon, right? But if so, how much? And are any foods actually worse with bacon?

We calculated the answer, following a simple methodology that made the most of the 906,539 ratings on foodnetwork.com. First, we searched out all the recipes that fit a certain description-—sandwiches, for example. Then, we calculated the average rating for those foods if they did not include the word “bacon.” We ran the numbers again using only recipes that did include bacon. The results were pretty great. Of all the foods we analyzed, bacon lends the most improvement to sandwiches. Many other foods also benefitted. In fact, we found that when you crunch the data for all recipes, those with bacon do in fact rate higher.

So are you going to argue with science?  Science with charts and graphs?

stay safe.

[Hawkmoon]

Not science. Statistical analysis, nothing more. And you must remember what they say about that:

"Figures never lie, but liars always figure."

Or:

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and statistics."

The obvious question, then, is: Are statistics better with bacon?