Numbers and Statistics quite useless *and very dangerous* without context or evidence you can touch/really verify though more neutral people/agency?

Especially from those who give it that we already know manipulate or profit even from the fuck-ups or deliberate down-turns.

Knowing...
● ...how people calculate(d) it, :check
● ...how their own meaning of terms :check
● ...if transparency exists :check
● ...being able yourself to investigate... :check or that if many others can investigate / verify and therefore increase our colllective trust (I.E monopoly or 1 source that is unverifiable is bad/dangerous to all).

THEREFORE... MODERN NUMBERS TODAY (IF THEY DON'T MEET ABOVE REQUIREMENTS) ARE ALREADY HIGHLY AT RISK (and just because 'someone' said so).

I THINK THIS RENDERS MOST STATS AS DELIBERATE HUMAN ERROR / COVER-UPS BY NATURE OF NOT BEING CLEAR AT ALL and actually a tool (masquerading as a legitimate tool)

Wouldn't be so bad if people didn't base much of their on others and worked toward the :check list above also at the same time at least.