How to Lie with Statistics

"Nothing has been falsified—except the impression that it gives."

"Who are those who chucked the questionnaire into the nearest wastebasket?"

"Even if you cant find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is."

"This [the degree of significance] is the little figure that is not there—on the assumption that you, the lay reader, wouldnt understand it. Or that, where there is an axe to grind, you would."

"There is terror in numbers. [...] Perhaps we suffer from a trauma induced by grade-school arithmetic."

"Does it make sense?" will often cut a statistic down to size when the whole rigmarole is based on an unproven assumption."