Stephen Jackson's Blog – March 2013 Archive (1)

3 Ways Statistics Are Lying To You

In the 1954 classic text, How to Lie With Statistics, author Darrell Huff asserts that there arestatistics  hundreds of ways that numbers can lie to you. Statistical interpretation is a subjective business - trends and correlation can be employed by the statistician to support pretty much any hypothesis. Graphs and charts can distort reality. Ratios and proportions can be meaningless comparisons. What we might think as…

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Added by Stephen Jackson on March 27, 2013 at 2:57pm — No Comments

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