Twist the Numbers

  Numbers now lie, yes it is true

  Numbers never lie, but people do.

  The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

  Statistically statistics are often misused

  Mathematicians given money

  and told what the numbers should do.

  To interpret as numbers dictate,

  A bank balance with a lot of zeroes.

  Well paid, soulless think tank heroes.

  Raw data, the art of the stratified sample.

  Minimum bias, untouched by opinion.

  Numbers never lie, if only we’d listen.