Because of the advent of high speed computers statistics has become more visible. Almost any discipline has an element of statistics in it. In fact one cannot publish in most journals when the statistics used or misused is not stated. Newspapers, magazines, etc are now awash with one form or other of ‘statistics’. Now it is fashionable to take data, shove it into a computer and come out with nice tables, graphs and p-values. Clearly such practices are a gross misuse of statistics and do a disservice to the subject. There is no wonder we are in the company of ‘lies, damned lies and statistics’.