Lies, Calculations and Constructions: Beyond How to Lie with Statistics

"Lies, damned lies and criminal statistics": reinterpreting the criminal statistics in England and Wales.

Darrell Huff and Fifty Years of How to Lie with Statistics

Over the last fifty years, How to Lie with Statistics has sold more copies than any other statistical text. This note explores the factors that contributed to its success and provides biographical sketches of its creators: author Darrell Huff and illustrator Irving Geis.

HOW IUOT TO LIE WITH STATISTICS: THE CORRECT WAY TO SUMMARIZE 6ElUClflWARK RESULTS

In the literature, performance results are frequently summarized using i.he arithmetic mean of performance ratios, leading, in some cases, to wrong conclusions (see Tables 2 and 3 in [Z]) or, at best, inappropriate statistics (see Tables’ 12 and 13 in [3]). We hope to elucidate this inadvertent misuse of statistics in reporting results by pointing out why the arithmetic mean should not be used ...

Would I lie to you? Self-serving lies and other-oriented lies told across different media

This study set out to investigate in which type of media individuals are more likely to tell self-serving and other-oriented lies, and whether this varied according to the recipient of the lie. One hundred and fifty participants rated on a likert-point scale how likely they would tell a lie. Participants were more likely to tell self-serving lies to people not well-known to them. They were more...

Mercury Amalgam Fillings: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Recently I reported on the methodology and machinations involved in vaccine-related injury cover-ups by the elitists in science and government at the Simpsonwood Conference on Thimerosal in vaccines. A new scandal has been recently released concerning the safety of mercury contained in dental amalgam, which is of equal magnitude and again showing the modus operandi of the government/elitist sci...