The debate is less about a single figure than about a decade-long erosion of trust in official statistics.

Surprisingly, both of these reports are correct. The media reporting that 'the pension fund is doing well' and social media ...

New Delhi | Asserting that behind every statistic lies a human story, President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said that the true measure of economic policy is not merely in numbers, but in its outcome.

Statistics and science have been publicly slammed by some. The issues of climate change and COVID-19, in particular, have stirred accusations of bias, conspiracies, and even hoaxes (Philipp-Muller et ...

No one knows who came up with the phrase “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” But we do know that real estate is not immune from the deceptive use of data to support a bankrupt argument. A damaging ...

I recently had occasion to write to the publisher of a magazine with a couple of complaints about the way they had represented information based on statistical analysis. It seems to me that readers of ...

Lies. Damn lies and statistics. Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken and George Orwell, where are you now when we need you? Numbers, numbers, numbers. Earlier this month, more numbers. CNN, according to a poll, ...

Mark Twain wrote, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." This phrase is often taken to mean that statistics are another form of lying. Not so, says Aaron Fisher, a ...