Statisticians often reach very different answers after studying the same data. This is what the joke means when it says they "point in every direction."

u had better call it a reality. then statisticians would make a joke out of it!

I thought that you would like to know this saying: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." That is why we should be very careful before believing the statistics that we often read about in the newspaper.