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A description of how you believe statistics can enrich and represent the results of a study, and an explanation of how statistics can be used to misrepresent the results of a study.

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Statistics: Enrich and represent a study, or mislead and misrepresent results of study

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Statistics can benefit they represent the general trend, and can hurt if interpreted incorrectly (e.g. if some rare events are very different from the general trend, then interpreting these events would be misleading).

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