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{{short description|Book by Darrell Huff}}
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Themes of the book include "[[Correlation does not imply causation]]" and "Using [[random sampling]]". It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do.
The original edition contained illustrations by artist [[Irving Geis]]. In a UK edition, these were replaced with cartoons by [[Mel Calman]].{{
==See also==
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{{Misuse of statistics}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:How To Lie With Statistics}}
[[Category:1954 non-fiction books]]
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