Numbers are abstract. With numbers you can consider yourself a winner anytime. It depends on the way you play them.
If you report them with a triumphal tone and self-satisfaction, as it has been done these days by the Italian minister of Infrastructure and Transport Paola De Micheli, guest Lucia Annunziata’s TV broadcast, then you are convincing. But if you happen to ran into the photos of buses and metro in Naples, Rome, Milan, narrating how much constipated they are, you risk to follow your push to collect the signatures in order to give the witty minister the Nobel Prize in Physics (she must be patient, because that glorious recognition does not include Mathematics).
