Statistics proves that eating corn is the original cause of pregnancy. Corn, being the common ingredient in the life of our founders must have been the cause of pregnancy. The common thread of statistics shows that the most frequent thing is the thing of cause.
Obviously this is false.

Statistics proves or disproves randomness, fit to distribution and such. The common, or journalistic man things that statistics proves something. The statistician certainly better not fall into that mistake. Stats may disprove a posture, but it cannot prove the position. What was the height of the First Emperor of China? Let’s take a poll.