Advertising is only another form of statistics.

The remark compresses a skeptical view of advertising into a single analogy: ads do not primarily convey neutral information but selectively frame numbers, comparisons, and claims to produce an impression. Like statistics, advertising can be technically “true” while still being rhetorically loaded—dependent on what is measured, what is omitted, and how results are presented. The quote also hints at the modern, data-driven side of persuasion: advertising often relies on market research, audience segmentation, and performance metrics, turning human attention and behavior into quantifiable inputs and outputs. Read this way, it is both a critique of manipulation and an observation that persuasion increasingly borrows the authority of numerical evidence.