How To Lie With Charts

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1. bombcarJul 2023
   How to Lie with Charts - https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Gerald-Everett-Jones/dp/14... or How to Lie with Stastitics - https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03...

   Always good reading, find at a library near you!

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2. DoreenMicheleSep 2022
   See also the book How to lie with statistics and similar (I think a follow up book was called How to lie with charts and graphs).
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3. MzJul 2010
   I always felt that the quote indicated that statistics are easily used to mislead with credibility. When I homeschooled my sons, I gave them a choice between the algebra/geometry/calc track and a statistics track. They chose statistics. An interesting book we included in our studies was "How to lie with statistics". (FWIW: I think there was a later book called something like "How to lie with charts and graphs".)

   My point was not that statistics are lies but just that the statement "Graphs don't lie" isn't some kind of unquestionable grand truth.

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