I think statistics play the role of data collection and gathering information to better understand things in our society.
Statistics help us understand the big picture of something and gives people a more accurate representation of what is happening rather than one person’s perspective.
Statistics can easily be made up and lead those made up statistics can be very misleading to someone who wouldn’t know the difference. Another problem could be bad sampling because sometimes a small sample is not an accurate representation of a population or a sample of people could be biased. Statistics can also be true but misleading and unfair.