I'm not sure that it's fair to blame this fact on statistics.
That's certainly true. The only thing you can say here about statistics is that it's hard, much harder than it looks.
Popular media reports with phrases like "Over 80% of..." create the impression that statistics can be encapsulated in a simple number, but that's far, far from true.
That's certainly true. The only thing you can say here about statistics is that it's hard, much harder than it looks.
Popular media reports with phrases like "Over 80% of..." create the impression that statistics can be encapsulated in a simple number, but that's far, far from true.