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by bena 1601 days ago
When people talk about "lying with statistics", this is what they mean.

Because when people hear "50% of the infected were vaccinated", they're going to misapply the symmetric property and assume 50% of the vaccinated were infected. Even though these are entirely separate things.

Edit: You realize that I'm agreeing with the person I'm replying to and providing a slight paraphrase to what he's saying, right?