I feel that Statistics can be used to count the number of fruits that are left. This is somehow relevant to me and my parents as we can keep track on our fruit-eating habits and we will know when to buy more fruits to replace the original stash. I also feel that newspaper reports use statistics for reporting the situation especially when money or human beings are involved. Here is the link of the website that includes the use of statistics to report the situation of how 9/11 changed America : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/629/629/5305868.stm .
If statistics are not used properly, the information could be misleading to the readers. Here is a piece of news that represents misleading information:
Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern that you might not see in a spreadsheet, but they only work when you use the actual data. Fox News isn't doing themselves any favors by putting up this chart. It shows the recently announced drop in unemployment rate to 8.6 percent as a non-change.
The November rate is lower than the March rate of 8.8 percent, but it's shown to be higher in the Fox News chart. Here's what the graph should look like, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Therefore, if used wrongly or not copied correctly, statistics can be misleading to the many gullible people.
