Uses Playing a game of chance Purchasing Admitting students to a college or university Interpreting consumer trends projecting crop yield, future sales, future success, etc.
Many people say that a statisticians can manipulate numbers to prove any point.
However, this does not happen most of the time. A novice could pick out such abuses. There are three main types of abuse 1. 2. 3. The abuse usually comes in the interpretation of the statistic. Often an oral interpretation is slightly different than visual information.