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Warpy

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1. Statistics

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2024, 04:36 PM

Jul 2024

"How to Lie with Statistics" seems to be out of print, but fortunately for anyone with an interest in statistics and/or official prevarications and distortions, it exists online:

https://archive.org/details/howtoliewithstat00huff/mode/2up

Hell, just about everybody could benefit from reading this book. It's a good first step to deconstructing propaganda. It's also a pretty funny read--and a short one.

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