First of two parts
There are three kinds of statistics: those that lie; those that mislead; and those that journalists and politicians use to lend credence to their arguments.
When it comes to the statistics revealed by some opinion polls conducted in the past in Japan, it appears all three categories can apply simultaneously.
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