We need to be careful when we use statistics to bolster our arguments. We also need to be more critical when others use statistics as well. Here is an excellent article that calls Christians to use statistics much more ethically. If we lie in order to make the truth more appealing or seem more urgent, we are doing God a disservice. While we might get short term results, we will end up hurting Christianity in the long run. Read this article and then evaluate how you use statistics, or how you have been misled by statistics, in the past.
Evangelicals Behaving Badly with Statistics
Mistakes were made.
by Christian Smith
Books & Culture, January/February, 2007.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/001/5.11.html
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