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wangle
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verb
achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
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noun
an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery
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verb
(= fudge, falsify, cook)
tamper, with the purpose of deception
Fudge the figures
cook the books
falsify the data
statistics
Noun
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Statistics are numbers about information.
New crime statistics that show the number of crimes is decreasing.
The government published new unemployment statistics for the month of June.
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Statistics is the science of using and understanding those numbers.
To do research, it's important to understand simple statistics such as averages and standard deviations.
Statistics is a kind of mathematics.