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I would like you to come up with some data, stats, reports to back up your claims. May be this will help us to understand and justify the point you are trying to make.
No, stats and data cannot be used unless you want to fall into the shame of applying human psychology to gain more merits. You will be identified as a user that specifically writes about merit to get more merits, and that is a capital sin. Shame on you @mdayonliner for asking for it, trying to make the OP fall into this trap. And just after ranking-up...
P.d. Please dont make me retranslate my post to non-ironical verbose.