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The most recent edition — [http://htlws.it '''Mentire con le statistiche'''] – has been published in Italian on June 2007.

Some themes of the book are "[[Correlation does not imply causation]]" and "Using [[Random Sampling]]". It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality:

# By truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, one makes differences seem larger than they are

# By representing one-dimensional quantities by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, one makes the reader forget that the images don't scale the same way the quantities do.

==Notes and references==

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