A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you. - Darrell Huff - Quotesmemo.com

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Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them. . . and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

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Darrell Huff

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you.

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The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.

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A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

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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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Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

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Madame Bellwings, Memoir Elf Coordinator, was not at all pleased with this request, because elves who write the memoirs of teenage girls have the habit of returning to the magical realm with atrocious grammar. They can't seem to shake the phrases "watever" and "no way," and they insert the word like into so many sentences that the other elves start slapping them. . . and for no apparent reason occasionally call out the name Edward Cullen.

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