Sentence examples for misleading statistic from inspiring English sources

The former defence minister, a pro-European, has called on Vote Leave to explain its calculations or remove from all its campaign literature a "misleading statistic" that a Brexit could save Britain £350m a week.

What's more, deaths may be a misleading statistic that minimizes the true breadth of gun violence.

Shame on Mr Leonhardt for deploying this kind of misleading statistic.

More prevalent, and more bewildering, are the ambiguous cases — a subtly altered photograph, an accurate but misleading statistic, a tendentious connection among disparate dots.

It is a somewhat misleading statistic because there have been only four tours of India since David Gower's side triumphed 23 years ago.

(NOTE: As one reader pointed out, an earlier version of this column used a somewhat misleading statistic to illustrate the success of franchises.

Explaining why, though, is challenging because to understand it, you need to be able to follow not just the raw math, but the context that makes this "statistic" misleading.

I think the energy usage statistic is misleading.

But the statistic is misleading for several reasons.

Yet in some ways this statistic is misleading.

The Jets' defense has produced three sacks, but Mangini suggested that statistic was misleading.