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The thing with statistics – via

Numbers don’t lie but people can sure as fuck pick and choose the numbers they give you and phrase things to make them sound like they mean things they don’t

learn fucking stats or at least how they can hurt

As a wise man once said: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I was trying to figure out who actually originated the phrase (Mark Twain attributes it to Benjamin Disraeli), but it turns out the history is complicated and fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics