Most commonly quoted stats...that are in fact complete bogosity

[Lord T Hawkeye]

"People who own guns are 43 times more likely to shoot a family member than a burglar"

The bogosity: This number includes suicides which is blatantly misleading and doesn't include criminals who were scared off by a gun.

"Women earn only 76%, 82%, whatever percent of what men earn"

The bogosity: If you average out the salaries, yes this is true but it's not what it's made out to be.  If women earned less for the same work, no one would ever hire men.  Men earn more because they tend to be more willing to do the jobs fewer people want to do like working long hours, working outdoors or jobs that carry high risks.  Tis just supply and demand at work.

bleh, I should know other good ones but it's just not coming to me.  Too early in the day I guess.

[MrBogosity]

Actually, properly-controlled studies that look at things like experience and work history show that once those factors are controlled for, there is no discrepancy in the pay between men and women.

If you point that out, though, be prepared to be called a sexist pic etc.--but they don't refute the data. That's very telling, IMO.

Another popular one:

"We only use 10% of our brains." Nothing about that is true.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Now I remember another one.

"People who go to college make 1 million more than those who don't."

The bogosity: Number includes the big time money makers like Donald Trump who skew the average and it includes people who went to college but didn't use what they learned there to get rich, ie: They probably would have gotten rich anyway even if they didn't go.

Nothing against college people.  I just find it unethical when colleges make themselves out to be more than what they are.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Another good one.

"Men think about sex 'whatever number' times a minute"

The simplest rebuttal to this is: And...exactly how did they acquire this data?