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In an article in the New York Times of 25 January 1896 (page 15), Carroll Davidson Wright quotes “a recent president of Harvard” as saying that, “There are three kinds of lies—lies, damned lies and statistics.” A pdf file of the complete article can be obtained by clicking here and the LaTeX source is here. Sources
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By 1965, it would have been 32,768 (in 1965, the F.B.I. identified only 9,960 criminal homicides in the entire country, including adult as well as child victims). By 1970, the number would have passed one million; by 1980, one billion (more than four times the total U.S. population in that year).
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses e...
Damned Lies and Statistics thrives on relevance: nearly all its examples are about important con-temporary issues where competing claims about statistics have shaped policy debates in Congress and state legislatures. Recognizing the statistical and mathematical illiteracy of his intended audi-ence, the author rarely discusses any mathematical
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy.
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy.
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists. Joel Best. University of California Press, Jul 8, 2012 - Art - 206 pages. Here, by popular demand,...
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak arguments, "one of the best, and best-known" critiques of applied statistics. [2] It is also sometimes colloquially used to doubt statistics used to prove an opponent's point.