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The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify.

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A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie"; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

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Misinforming people by use of statistical material might be called statistical manipulation; in a word (though not a very good one), statisticulation.

Darrell Huff

Darrell Huff

Darrell Huff

Born: July 15, 1913

Died: June 27, 2001 (aged 87)

Bio: Darrell Huff was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics, the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.

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