Sentence examples for phony statistics from inspiring English sources
"Potemkin numbers" are phony statistics based on erroneous or nonexistent calculations.
The next day, the Massachusetts secretary of state, William F. Galvin, complained publicly that Chief Justice Roberts had used "phony statistics" in a "deceptive" and "truly disturbing" manner.
When Wallace did some research, he discovered instances where supporters of vaccination had used questionable, in a few cases completely phony, statistics to support their arguments.
That has to be one of the phoniest statistics I've heard.
In fact, phony Washington statistics and warped market measurements make it doubly hard to tell.
The Bush administration allowed states to phony-up statistics on everything from graduation rates to student achievement to teacher training and state education standards.
Experts have scrambled to explain the phenomenon, citing a poor film lineup, a lack of discounts from online ticket sellers, and increased government scrutiny of phony box office statistics.
Trump regularly denigrates basic, verifiable facts, such as unemployment statistics, as phony ― unless he happens to like them.
Using phony charts and doctored statistics, he's launched a full-fledged campaign to portray state government workers as "overpaid" and their benefits as "excessively generous" -- and to blame them for the $4 billion budget deficit that looms on the state's fiscal horizon.
Would you trust your country's air-defense system to a computer that relies on Bayesian statistics to distinguish real threats from phony ones?
Along with the Times' editorial board, the New York Daily News' editorial board on Wednesday called statistics used by de Blasio to justify the cap "phony".
