What role does mathematical illiteracy play in the misuse of statistics? Illust

Mathematical illiteracy (innumeracy) is a primary reason for the misuse of statistics.
This means that people do not understand numbers and statistics.
The quotation listed above misrepresented a statistic from the Children’s Defense Fund, which said that the number of children gunned down doubled from 1950 to 1994, not every year.
The CDF source was misleading because it did not report that the total population had also doubled during that period.
The quotation, if true, would mean that more children were being killed in 1987 than the entire human population throughout history.