Essay | The Uses and Abuses of Statistics

Our world is inundated with statistics, which are used to enhance the publics' understanding of a topic, or as a tool, to adroitly manipulate their perception and ideas. It may take a certain amount of acumen to be able to differentiate between these two scenarios, as to do this, one needs to take into account various essential aspects of statistics, which often pass, unnoticed. In this essay I will attempt to analyze the methods in which statistics are used to assist or deceive people, and to recognize ways in which we can test the validity of statistics presented to us ourselves.

As stated previously, statistics are everywhere and can be found ubiquitously throughout the different areas of knowledge, where in some cases, they are essential.

Within the scope of the human sciences alone, statistics can be...
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