Most of us have utilized our unfettered, nearly-instantaneous access to an nigh-infinite amount of information to make sure we never learn a darn thing we don’t want too. — “Statistics,” the late great Vin Scully quipped, “are used much like a drunk uses a lamp post: for support, not illumination.” We are adrift in the mathematical body of science that pertains to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data: Statistics, in the vernacular, or stats in…