[Danny]

This has come up in two topics simultaneously, so rather than continue to pollute those topics with this meaningless and irrelevant argument, I've decided to clear it up here.

fact (n)
1: a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case"
2: a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened; "he supported his argument with an impressive array of facts"
3: an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
4: a concept whose truth can be proved; "scientific hypotheses are not facts"

opinion (n)
1: a personal belief that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
2: a belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people; "he asked for a poll of public opinion"
3: a message expressing a belief about something; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page"

statistics (n)
a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters

Okay, so that last one wasn't very helpful. But still, surely you can see that Facts and Opinions are totally different things, and that Facts can be proven, and Opinions cannot. Statistics are not a separate concept, they are simply a collection of Facts or Opinions. They are NOT a device for turning one into another...