Obesity In Children Statistics: The Numbers Don't Give The Whole Story

The funny thing about statistics is that they can be skewed based on who needs them and what angle they are trying to portray. For instance, if you want to use obesity in children statistics to show that the numbers are tapering off and ease the fears of the people in your community, you can use the numbers from one of the groups that are actually slowing down, never mind that as a whole those numbers have done little real changing or that in some groups, the rate of obesity is actually climbing rather than slowing down.