A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. - Darrell Huff
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.
- Darrell Huff
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it.… - Darrell Huff
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it.…
A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you. - Darrell Huff
A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statisti… - Darrell Huff
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statisti…
A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference. - Darrell Huff
It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it. - Darrell Huff
It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. - Darrell Huff
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
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