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Is it possible to misrepresent data and conclusions using statistics? Why or why not?

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It is possible to misrepresent data and the conclusions using statistics. In Statistics there is a matter called skewness which means that information is pulled to the negative or the positive. Data can be misrepresented by the use of ...

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