That bothers me on basically every stat on a news article. They just come up with a number and expect people to believe it. But they don't talk about how it was

That bothers me on basically every stat on a news article. They just come up with a number and expect people to believe it. But they don't talk about how it was calculated so people can't confirm it themselves, and very often, if multiple "experts" are the ones calculating the stats, they just pick the biggest outlier to strum up more controversy.