Sentence examples for fake statistics from inspiring English sources

In Argentina, fake statistics were passed off as legitimate.

If the scenes of Steven acting up in the courtroom or trotting out fake statistics at a business meeting are preposterous, they keep the movie aloft.

Everyone understood how conservative politicians and Fox News would use feelings and fake statistics and pretend that they were the same as facts, but no one had a word for it yet.

During the election, many people fell prey to fake news stories on social media -- even the president-elect ended up retweeting fake statistics.

Trump has tweeted out a graphic with fake crime statistics that say 81% of white homicide victims were "killed by blacks".

"It's a scandal if it turned out that the same banks that brought us to the brink of the abyss helped to fake the statistics," Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech at a conference in Germanylast night.

Sutherland is an expert at detecting fake or misleading statistics, but found no such problem with McNeill's, pointing out that he always identifies his sources and is willing to cite numbers that point in different directions, as often happens in real life.

Number of Nobel laureates in economics, including the World Bank's chief economist, who signed a letter lamenting Trump for "fake and misleading" statistics, "reckless threats to start trade wars," and exaggerations on the negative effects of immigration: 19.

Spain's finance minister, Elena Salgado, was trying to paint Greece as a unique case because of its admission that it has faked its budget statistics in past years.

Statistics on fake drugs are hard to come by.

"When I delved into this, I discovered conspiracy theories, fake news, made-up statistics and a whole lot of people involved who switched their positions from pro-choice to pro-life, including Norma [McCorvey]," Loeb told The Hollywood Reporter, naming the plaintiff who was known by the legal pseudonym "Jane Roe".