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Originally Posted by Paul M
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
You can pretty much spin numbers anyway you want to "prove" something.
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Then what's the point in anything? Cancer survival rates, GDP measurements, crime rates in cities, rates of literacy in countries, effectiveness of medical treatments and so on. This kind of statistical analysis is all over the place. They all have the problem that raw numbers aren't useful, adjustments have to be made and that in the end there will often be ambiguity into what the results then tell us.
This is a massive part of mathematics and statistics. It's not even a contested science, as K said the basics of it are taught at GCSE level.