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... about some certain issue, in order to twist a fact. Secondly, discuss the questions that we should raise against any statistics before we can acknowledge that the given evidence is true. Statistics can be depicted as no more than generalizations of the reality, because the information presented is based on the collected samples rather than doing actual "head counts". Therefore, the representation of the sample could greatly alter our perception of the reality. I personally had an experience last year while working on my personal project where I wanted to show that people in Phnom Penh were willing to buy my invented transport, I intentionally limited my interviewees to those teenagers who could afford to buy such expensive transport and thus were more likely to be attracted to it. Clearly, the group of people that I had chosen was only a subgroup, which did not represent the entire Phnom Penh community. ...
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