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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What are some examples (preferably horrific) of statistics being misused?

I have a project for the use and misuse of statistics and I'll have to present it to around 40 people in my class. I've taken some good, normal misuse graphs for my first half, and I want my second half to actually yknow *hit* the audience. Like I want them to hear my speech and actually refer sources instead of blindly following fake data and contributing to misinformation of the masses and stuff. For this I'd need some pretty heinous cases where statistics was misused and contributed to a lot of problems in society (Like in Purge they say theres virtually no unemployment by killing the unemployed, something like that)

Also it would be pretty helpful if you guys could give me tips for presenting this, thanks :)
gpt
You remember that advice that 1 glass of red wine per day is good for you?

It really isn't, but the category of people who never drink had indeed worse health outcomes than the ones who drink on average a glass per day.

And that is because in this analysis, the group of people who never drink contains also ex-alcoholics which will have far worse health outcomes than light drinkers.