SOME people think that statistics are misleading, but the winners of this year's Statistical Project Competition have proved them wrong.
Cheng Swen-lok, Cheng Ming-fai, Kok Wai-ming and Cheng Kee-chik of King's College won the championship in the senior section with a detailed report of the fishing industry in Hongkong.
Swen-lok said it was hard to collect data and information, but the toughest job was handling the data objectively to get an interpretation without any bias.
The sixth-formers spent three weeks collecting and analysing the data to produce a statistical report.
''I think we won because our data was presented logically and our report was comprehensive,'' Swen-lok said.
Their report looked at various aspects of the fishing industry, including the contribution of the fishing industry to Hongkong's economy, comparisons between capture and culture fisheries and per capita consumption of fish.
The data was presented concisely with colourful computer graphics.