>>14359651You can't lie with math but you can't tell absolute truth with statistics. When there's no actual truth - only samples and models and probabilities and margins of error - it's trivial to "lie" by omitting inconvenient evidence or shaping the assumptions and perspectives of a study. Add to that the swarms of corrupt journalists and politicians (and academics) who stand between the raw math and the public, filtering out what can't support their ideology or be distorted to appear to, and quietly ignoring all the doubts and caveats inherently attached to any statistical claim.
