Statistics can be used and misused in many ways.

For example, the US calculates it's unemployment rate by how many people are on or apply for aid from the government on a quarterly basis. While that is not a bad thing to track it completely ignores those who have run out of aid but are still unemployed. The official numbers hover around ~8% but the real numbers are likely half again if not double that. The numbers are not an outright lie, just a mischaracterization or perhaps "not the whole truth".

Another example is PC vs Mac market-share. Macs always lose. Why? Because they track the number of machines sold and the OS they use, not the number in actual use. While the actual numbers would be higher for the Mac it would still lose the but percentage, and thus the perception, might be different.