Activist-produced data circulated in public discourse sometimes inflates statistics by 15% or more beyond the actual available data, and Oliver's team has found that there are often more defensible statistics available that don't require this exaggeration but activists use inflated numbers anyway.
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John OliverEvidence Quote
“you've inflated this by 15% and it really did not need to there's a perfectly usable stat that's slightly less than what you're saying which you can actually stand on rather than this one which is just nothing”
Created: 8/13/2026, 3:27:17 AM
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