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If you have a good idea that you are committed to, why should the statistics matter?

Because most good ideas which people are committed to aren't "get accepted into YC". Why shouldn't someone say "I'm not likely to get accepted into YC, so I'll spend my time working on my good idea instead of filling out the YC application form"?

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We try to make the questions on the YC application form sufficiently useful that it would be worthwhile spending the time to fill it out even if you never submitted it.

As it is, you're not likely to get accepted, regardless of age and education statistics, due to the sheer volume of applications versus spots available.

"spots available"

they don't have a standard spots available number.

No, they don't, but there are orders of magnitude more applications submitted than teams accepted.

I seem to remember paul saying something like "we accept all the good enough ideas."

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