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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.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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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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