I get that the bots would drive up the hit count, but wouldn’t each bot count as one unique visitor? For example, here are my stats from yesterday:
ShortStat – 70 uniques
WP_Stats – 31 unique (at least I’m assuming that by “views” in the line chart they are referring to unique visitors and not total page views)
Google Analytics – 14 uniques
I can see different stat counters being off +/- 10 uniques because of the way they track unique visitors, but something seems out of whack here.