Statistics are representative of data that are collected from a large numerical data to be presented for

analyses. It can be used in researching an event or topic to determine the outcome of it.

If people want your research to have a specific outcome, you may choose a specific data point that
works in your favor, even though another data point is much better in terms of average.

You’re basically cherry-picking data that only works in your favor instead of picking data that can
contradict your statement.

An example of this cherry-picking of evidence is a youtuber/streamer was accused of cheating in his

speed runs when he got lucky throughout his stream, this was one stream mind you. That one stream
led him to be investigated if he was cheating in his other speed runs.

From my observation and his response to the supposed evidence, is the fact that they cherry-picked
evidence. They only use streams that are above average in luck and ignore the other streams that are
considered average and below average. So, the people concluded from this cherry-picked evidence is
‘statistically’ high that he was cheating.

Cherry-picking evidence or data is, I believe, one of the abuse of statistics.

The use of statistics is to not have bias and are used to come into a conclusion of an outcome. Whether
you like or don’t like the outcome. It’s used to find the average possibility from the data points.

An example is using statistics of people being asked to choose a number from 1-10. There’s a 10%
chance that people will choose the number 7 from the other numbers. I just asked my brother, sister
and uncle in choosing a number, and none of them chose the number 7. Out of the 10 numbers from
three participants, it’s safe to say that the 10% of picking the number 7 is correct because each number
is also 10% in being picked.

My thoughts regarding on specifically the abuse of statistics, is heavily opinionated from my own morals.
I believe that an outcome will be true when using true evidence. When picking data that highly works in
your favor without considering the others is just bias whether intentional or not.