• Rex Stout, creator of the great detective Nero Wolfe, said, “There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.”
• Stout noted it’s especially true in political debate, where calling out the spin, once the job of the media and the opposition, has been delegated to a handful of self-appointed critics.
• Both sides are guilty of employing selective statistics to win an argument. However, the Biden White House and congressional Democrats have turned the phrase “cherry-picking data” into an art form over the past year.

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