Help will medal: We often hear you can lie with statistics. This is one way of saying statistics can be easily miscommunicated. Find one example of how statistics are miscommunicated and explain why there was a miscommunication and what you would do to correct this problem?

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Help will medal: We often hear you can lie with statistics. This is one way of saying statistics can be easily miscommunicated.  Find one example of how statistics are miscommunicated and explain why there was a miscommunication and what you would do to correct this problem?

geneticrockhopper247 · Answer

A lot of miscommunicated statistics don't share the overall question or what was being asked. For example, a person could say that 30% of people agree that apples are better than oranges. However, they wouldn't say that 50% of people said that they thought both were equal and another 10% said that they like oranges better. The idea is that people often leave a lot of stuff out.

geneticrockhopper247 · Answer

Looking for answers and not taking the statistics at face value will fix this problem.

geneticrockhopper247 · Answer

https://sciencewritingblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/statistics-gone-wrong-but-where/ This explains it pretty well. If what I just said made no sense, this might help.

juana02 · Answer

Thanks for explaining and giving example

geneticrockhopper247 · Answer

You're welcome :)