> it's increasingly common to lie with statistics. I'm pretty sure it has always been the case: ""Lies, damned lies, and statistics" can be traced back at leas

> it's increasingly common to lie with statistics. I'm pretty sure it has always been the case: ""Lies, damned lies, and statistics" can be traced back at least as far as 188x. Besides, the chain of lies is super long. Sample selection. Data collection. Data analysis. Reporting. Publishing. At each steps, so many things can go wrong: errors, agenda, corruption, bias... In the case of Covid, we already have plenty of terrible communication from the entities at play, so at this point, it's kinda hard to have an informed opinion.