Who said, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics!" ?
And sure enough, statistics these days are used and abused by governments and companies, to find growth where there is none, patterns to confirm prejudices, tendencies which can be inverted just by changing the scaling, When you hear a government official speaking of "science", you can be certain that souped up statistics will follow in short order, concocted by well paid "scientists" which gift aligns more with number wizardry than "real" calculations. What is real anyway when the answer is announced on TV first, to be confirmed later?
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