Statistics, the perfect weapon to justify hate?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There seems to be some talk about what Todd Christofferson has said.
"Adultery, promiscuity, elective abortion, and out-of-wedlock births are but some of the bitter fruits that grow out of the immorality sanctioned by the sexual revolution"
----D. Todd Christofferson October 2020 LDS General Conference


I was talking to some mormons about this, whether it is a good idea to call out-of-wedlock births bitter fruits and the overall response is that yes, they are all bitter fruits because the statistics say that children from single parents are no good.

This troubles me because when you use statistics, you are putting a lot of people, a lot of good people (single mothers, single fathers, homosexual men and so on) in the same group and labelling them as defective.

Couldn’t statistics be used to label other groups as well.
For example, I was talking to a person who was against homosexuals. His reason is that the rate of suicide with homosexuals is high, therefore, homosexuality is not a good thing.

Are you aware of any other statistics that labels people? Perhaps, statistics that allows for gender discrimination, sexual discrimination, racial discrimination?

"there are lies, damned lies and statistics" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damn...7s%20point.

Not so much a statistic as a way to demonstrate how little people understand about statistics, here's an argument I've actually heard:

'Women are 100% more likely than men to give birth. Since giving birth is a very time and labour intensive thing, women cannot be as productive as men in the workforce.  Therefore, it is sensible and reasonable to not hire women and, if you do, it's perfectly ok to pay them less than their male counterparts.'

Among professional sociologists and economists, this is technically known as the How Can You Be So Fucking Stupid Theory.

Boru