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No. However they can be used to mislead people or twisted to indicate things that seem good but aren't (this is called spindoctoring) in various ways. Examples include driving accident statistics - 45% of crashes are caused by drunk drivers, but that means 55% were caused by sober drivers - and crime statistics - 5000 murders were committed in one city but only 500 were committed in another; a person might assume the second city is safer, but if the first city had 100 times the population then it is actually only one-tenth, not ten times as dangerous as the second.
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When was How to Lie with Statistics created?
How to Lie with Statistics was created in 1954.
In statistics what does the empirical rule states?
Nearly all the values in a sample from a normal population will lie within three standard deviations of the mean. Please see the link.
Is there any application of differentiation in statistics?
Yes. For example, consider a standard normal curve. z = 1 and z = -1 happen to lie at the inflection points of the normal curve.
Types of statistics?
There are two types of statistics. One is called descriptive statistics and the other is inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics is when you use numbers. Inferential statistics is when you draw conclusions or make predictions.
What is the definition for Psychological Statistics?
Psychological statistics is the application of statistics to psychology.
