If you include stats in your article you need to cite your sources.

Again an unsupported claim to support your bias. If you include sources for other points you make to support the theme of the article you…

Again an unsupported claim to support your bias. If you include sources for other points you make to support the theme of the article you most definitely need to do that when pulling out a statistic like this one. That would be like me saying 1 third of all puppies will try and kill you in your sleep before they reach adulthood… completely made up