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Xena1234 · 51-55, F
People who make up statistics in order to try to prove their point.
Existentior · M
Indeed, statistics are a clever way to lie. 99% of 50% of 10% of the people dislike 33.3% of 80% of the population. The worst ones are the ones on tv that fool its dumb audience, the ones that take a random 5-10 people from a town/city and then pawn it off as: 8/10 people suffer from pattern x. In the news as well: "3 out of 10 people are unhappy" (and then the source is usually some survey based on a microscopic subset of the population (which, like we all learned in Statistics 101, is not a quantitative measure!). I mean, come on, you have to be lowly educated to believe that.