&quot;Very few laymen can interpret statistics correctly&quot; -- Correct, and that&#x27;s why there are people whose job it is to do so.  I imagine the FBI, like any large organization, has at least a few of these people on the payroll.<p>I don&#x27;t imagine anyone who&#x27;s enough of a data wonk to say something like &quot;.. the beautiful thing about numbers ..&quot; is one of those untrained laymen. :)