It is, however, necessary to exercise great care in the collection and use of the statistics. Lowell has aptly said that"statistics, like real pies are good if you know the person who made them, and are sure of the ingredients as"by themselves they are strangely likely to mislead, because unless the subject is understood in all its bearings, some element can easily be left out of account which wholly falsifies the result. 72 To put it rather bluntly, there are three kinds of lies, the white, black and statistics, and it is the last kind is so difficult to nail or counteract. Statistics are manipulated to suit the party purposes and explained to distort the facts for electoral gains and political manoeuvring. It cannot, however, be denied that a knowledge of statistical principles and sampling method is often useful to the political scientists.