Where would finance, economics and politics be if it weren’t for statistics? These three professional fields use statistics constantly in many different ways to calculate everything from trade probabilities, economic growth and voter turnout. But statistics can be manipulated, and they can also fool you if you don’t know where they come from and don’t understand the full dataset behind the analysis.

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