October 21, 2025
Statistics, Damnable Lies, and Democrats
By Todd Gregory, Erik Gregory
By dishonestly cherry-picking and falsifying statistical data, government officials, government-adjacent NGOs, and news media can either invent facts or omit them as needed when trafficking in falsehoods or promoting desired narratives.
Pretending that any hand-picked correlation is causation (it’s Monday and it snowed; therefore, Mondays are the cause of snow), engaging in biased sampling and polling (like statistician Nate Silver’s now shuttered 538 forecasting model), and ignoring relevant context and countervailing facts can cause the public to have a hall-of-mirrors view of reality.
Whether the topic is economic numbers, alleged disparities in men’s and women’s salaries, or how something (insert here the Democrats’ preferred topic of the day) disproportionately hurts women and minorities, statistics are easily twisted and curated to support a pre-determined conclusion.
When media are peddling a narrative, they frequently begin a sentence with the words “Experts say…”
Who are these mostly anonymous “experts?” They are rarely identified by name in news reports.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/statistics_damnable_lies_and_democrats.html
