Pnooma

What is Pnooma?


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Abbreviation:

Pulling Numbers Out Of My Ass

(see also: pudouma)

To support one's arguments with arbitrary numbers that may or may not seem plausible.

Professionals (i.e. people who get paid for making PNOOMA-statements) prefer to use terms akin to "Qualified Estimate" or "Economic Calculus/Forecast" instead.

"This is completely PNOOMA, but about five million people in China miss both their front teeth."

A:"<statement involving statistics>"

B:"I don't believe this. It seems like PNOOMA to me."

See pudouma, relevant, irrelevant, statistics


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