Status Updates From How to Lie with Statistics

I do not know of any powerful group that is interested in making public spending appear to be smaller than it is.

And take the figures that show the suicide rate to be at its maximum in June. Do suicides produce June brides - or do June weddings precipitate suicides of the jilted? A somewhat more convincing (though equally unproved) explanation is that the fellow who licks his depression all through the winter with the thought that things will look rosier in the
spring gives up when June comes and he still feels terrible.

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.

Very interesting... I’ve seen these tricks so far but couldn’t have explained them as clearly.

It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying whether you are for or agin it.

The quick case studies are nice.