A woman passes by a world map showing countries infected with Covid-19 during a press conference at the National Police headquerters in Panama City, Panama, on Mac 10. — AFP
Sometimes, statistics can be scary, or at least, made to look more menacing than what these unbiased, risk-adjusted numbers really say.
Conversely, threatening, inconvenient data can be slighted, ignored, or perhaps misrepresented as something harmless, or even beneficial.
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