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Doing Statistics Justice
I'm reading a great book called How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff (with illustrations by Irving Geis), a business classic since 1954. One one of the second page are a collection of quotes about statistics, one in I particularly love:
I'm reading a great book called How to Lie With Statistics, by Darrell Huff (with illustrations by Irving Geis), a business classic since 1954. One one of the second page are a collection of quotes about statistics, one in I particularly love:
I have a great subject [statistics] to write upon, but feel keenly my literary incapacity to make it easily intelligible without sacrificing accuracy and throughness.
Sir Francis Galton
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