The headline associates you with the unschooled notion that statistics lacks scientific basis and method.

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He set up a model using an algorithm based on the Monte Carlo optimization method used in statistics and mathematics.

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City spokeswoman Lauren Passalacqua said a new method of collecting statistics that focused only on the most "meaningful interactions" were partially to blame for the drop.

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Dr Paxton has eschewed sonar detectors, underwater cameras and robot submarines in favour of an entirely different method of detection: statistics.

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Statistics provide a bias-free method to make decisions, right?

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Such a bias treats statistics as truth, as opposed to just a mathematical method for describing reality.

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