“The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.”
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Darrell Huff
Darrell Huff, born on July 15, 1913, was an influential statistician and writer from the United States. His work, 'How to Lie with Statistics,' had a profound impact on the popularization of statistical knowledge, and is considered a classic in the field of statistics. more