This article should have at least twenty times the number of claps it has received, but the mere use of the word "Math" in its title has probably depressed the number of readers. Failure to understand and employ data is chief among the reasons our nation is becoming a political and economic has been. It's not that there are "lies, damn lies, and statistics," but that the "truth" is so easily hidden by those who know how to present numbers in a misleading way.