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Over time is has become the most widely read statistics book in history and over one-half million copies have been sold in the English language edition alone. In [[2003]] the Department of Economics of [[Shanghai University]] published an edition in [[Chinese language|Chinese]].
The most recent edition — [http://htlws.it '''Mentire con le statistiche'''] – was published in Italian in June 2007.
 
Although a number of more recent editions have been published, the original contained illustrations by Irving Geis. In 1961, Geis would go on to illustrate the first protein crystal structure ever discovered, that of a sperm whale myoglobin.<references/>
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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: