You are making a statement about statistics that isn't correct. Statistics is collecting and analyzing numerical data, which is what this article does. That i

You are making a statement about statistics that isn't correct. Statistics is collecting and analyzing numerical data, which is what this article does. That is a truth, regardless of it being a different sort of analysis than what you believe to be the only model of statistics. That is also orthogonal to what I wrote, which you seemed to intentionally misunderstand in order for you to argue.