How To Lie With Charts
by Gerald Everett Jones · first published 2000
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How to Lie with Charts - https://www.amazon.com/How-Charts-Gerald-Everett-Jones/dp/14... or How to Lie with Stastitics - https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/03... Always good reading, find at a library…
on “Astro framework lowers competitors by ~40% on performance graph to looks better” ↗…algebra/geometry/calc track and a statistics track. They chose statistics. An interesting book we included in our studies was "How to lie with statistics". (FWIW: I think there was a later book called something like "How to lie with charts and graphs".) My point was not that statistics are lies but just that the statement "Graphs don't lie" isn't some kind of unquestionable grand truth.
on “Nigerian Internet use increasing” ↗See also the book How to lie with statistics and similar (I think a follow up book was called How to lie with charts and graphs).
on “Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven” ↗