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Statistics are how smart people use numbers to manipulate dumb people. Say something is 1/100 one year and then 2/100 the next, did it increase by 1% or by 100%? The answer is that it depends on what message is being pushed. That's one of many ways stats are used to manipulate even when they're true. There are many other factors such as targeted sample groups or deliberate alterations of data for politically motivates.

For example, let's take the fbi racial crime stats and turn them anti-racist by pointing out trends over the years and conveniently leaving out how Hispanics are mislabeled as white. Article headline reads: "*White crime on the rise while all nonwhites crime goes down.*" The article could include the actual fbi crime stats, but the vast majority of people won't click passed that headline.