However, researchers are now able to expose how misleading those statistics can be.
It turns out to be an excellent example of the misleading use of statistics.
Which brings us back to the introduction: are the TUC pushing an economic or political line with a careful presentation of statistics or are they intentionally misleading with a presentation of incorrect statistics?
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Yet Coldwell Banker's Gillespie says that focusing only on these statistics is misleading, and that observers shouldn't be surprised by the post-tax-credit swoon.
But it is not, because American poverty statistics are misleading.
So an on-the-face-of-it international comparison of rape statistics can be misleading.
The three big rules of research, as they were taught to me in high school, are pay attention to source bias, never trust the Internet (especially Wikipedia), and remember that statistics can be misleading.
The adviser, who couldn't speak on the record, recounted the story as an example of how statistics can easily become misleading.
These statistics can be spot-on or misleading, and figuring out which they are can be a challenge.
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Thousands of children are being unofficially excluded from school, and official statistics showing a drop in exclusions are misleading, says the children's charity Barnardo's.
However the CBI's claim that the UK has slipped down international league tables is misleading and statistically inaccurate as made clear by the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority and other reports.
It is that cancer often deviates wildly from the averages, so much so that merely applying the general statistics to an individual patient can often turn out to be downright misleading.
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Second, official statistics showing that the finances of British companies are incredibly healthy may be misleading.
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