Does it make sense?" will often cut a statistic down to size when the — 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."

"There is some irony to the world’s most famous statistics book having been written by a person with no formal training in statistics, but there is also some logic to how this came to be. Huff had a thorough training for excellence in communication, and he had an exceptional commitment to doing things for himself. [...] In the publishing field, this is what one means by pioneering, original work."