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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Even a small amount of statistic abuse will break blind trust in them. Once that trust is gone, some people will reject all of them, rather than try and differentiate.

Low grade abuse of statistics and related methods is rampant in low grade media.