Lawyers

Lawyers do not understand statistics or error bars.

For example, if you ask a family lawyer ‘how long after separation are the assets counted for divvying up?’, they’ll tell you 12 months.

In fact the mean number is 12 months, but the distribution spreads from 0 months (when both parties are reasonable and rational) to 5 years (when one party is poor, irrational and angry).

The same is true for all lawyer statement; no error bars.