Which of the following can be treated as limitation of statistics?

Statistics does not deal with qualitative data and descriptive facts.

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Statistics deals with groups and not with individuals.

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Statistical laws are not exact.

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All of above

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The correct option is D All of above
Statistics are aggregate of facts, a single numerical fact can't be called statistics. Thus they only deal with groups and not individuals. Statistics only deals with quantitative data it does not deal well with qualitative data beauty, honesty, goodwil etc cant be measured. The laws of statistic are not exact and they might be used improperly to misinform. Political parties may create misleading statistics to gain favor with the people.

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(i) Statistics can only deal with quantitative data.

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