9..Limitations of Statistics Unit.no.1

9.Limitations of Statistics:

1.     Statistical results are true only on the average or in the long run,

2.     Statistics does not deal with facts which cannot be numerically measured,

3.     Statistical results may be sometimes, due to poor collection of data, fallacious and misleading,

4.     Only experts can handle the statistical data efficiently, and

5.     Statistics provides only the tools for analysis.  It cannot however change the nature of the causes affecting statistical data.