Stats is one of the most important subject that modern, educated humans can know. We are confronted with a deluge of data and statistical figures that most peop

Stats is one of the most important subject that modern, educated humans can know. We are confronted with a deluge of data and statistical figures that most people are not in any way equipped to understand. What ends up happening is that people can make basically unsupported (or even erroneous) claims, and instead of those claims being rightfully recognized as bullshit or at least just conjecture, they are implanted in brains as "statistical facts."