Sentence examples for dubious statistics from inspiring English sources

Which is all the more reason to focus on the actual strong points from Thursday, rather than use dubious statistics.

The surest sign of this is that industry figures have started producing dubious statistics to show how endemic it is.

Then, if a second child should die mysteriously, police and the courts will have more to go on than vague suspicions and dubious statistics.

He also took full advantage of his incumbency, by filling the airwaves with advertisements extolling the government's purported achievements using dubious statistics.

Add "estimated imaginary sacks" to hang times and completion percentages as the most dubious statistics to come from the rookie camp optimism factory.

Twenty-five minutes in, he had begun to repeat himself, and he'd started looking down at the podium, reading dubious statistics about Sacramento's economic situation.

Now we've got not one set of dubious pollution statistics, but two.

Developed with support from the IMF, which censured Argentina for its dubious financial statistics last year, the new index put January inflation at 3.7%--the highest monthly rate recorded by the government since 2002.

Critics on the right call those statistics dubious, because the definition of "deportation" was changed to include the expulsion of fresh border-crossers.

Of course, people are no longer starved or beaten to death in the millions, but the same structural impediments to the building of a civil society are still in place, leading to similar problems — systemic corruption, massive squandering on showcase projects of dubious worth, doctored statistics, an environmental catastrophe and a party fearful of its own people, among others.

Calling elections and picking stocks - no doubt using techniques pioneered to fill time between horse races - have wrapped themselves in the highly dubious science of statistics and quantitative reporting.