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Originally Posted by MMM
I don't understand the negativity towards statistics (getting slightly off topic here). Statistics, if done properly, are essentially mathematical facts. The population of a country, the number of people who vote, the percent without jobs... These are all fact, or little pieces of truth. To call statistics lies is like calling math lies.
Indeed there are ways to present the numbers to skew conclusions about what they mean, but that doesn't mean the numbers are lies.
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really mm. what good are statistics really. it is how the statisticians come to a result that is the point. questionaires can be twisted to come up with probable answers,