Everyone manipulates statistics in their favor, be that to support a claim ("the numbers say that if we do X then Y", guns/less gun deaths, social healthcare/im

Everyone manipulates statistics in their favor, be that to support a claim ("the numbers say that if we do X then Y", guns/less gun deaths, social healthcare/improve quality of life) or to cause outcry ("you can't say X is/are/has Y, the numbers are Z", gender A/higher standard deviation for Q/sexist, monopolies/damaging/biased) regardless of the side of politics you are on in the US. Statistics are hard and the implications of some result are sometimes not intuitive. People don't care about what a standard deviation is, they just want more standard deviation than the other people over there because that makes them better.