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How useful are statistics for historians?

Paul Short and Dan Silverman assess the benefits and potential problems with using statistics

Statistics present information in a form that is clear and easy to understand, but they often provide limited information. The table and pie charts in Source A provide useful information about the impact of the Second World War and a comparison with the First World War, but the information is narrow in scope. Many questions remain unanswered from the data:

Why did the USSR suffer such great losses?

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