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“IF YOU can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. The semiattached figure is a device guaranteed to stand you in good stead. It always has.”

Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics
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How to Lie with Statistics How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
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