Opinion

Statistics, and why you can't always trust them

By Dr Mary McMillan
October 20 2020 - 7:00am
Statistics, and why you can't always trust them
Statistics, and why you can't always trust them

Ninety-five per cent of people reading this did not know that today is World Statistics Day. OK, so I made that statistic up. As Mark Twain famously said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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