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I think you’re spot on.

Unfortunately stats can be spun in whatever way you need them to in order to support or hinder an effort.

To use your example, risk per mile is a sliding scale, not necessarily a Boolean value. So then someone could conceivably draw the line on that scale wherever most benefited the company they were trying to support.



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