Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.
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
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.
A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference. - Darrell Huff
A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. - Darrell Huff
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 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.…
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…
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