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lying With stats

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Lying

With statistics
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Make it up

Sounds plausible
Photo by Gage Skidmore

No units

graphs without context
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Ill defined measure

Happiness, cleaner, brighter
Photo by Neal.

Potemkin Villages

Numbers that are a facade, million man march
Photo by Ahmed Rabea

Cherry Picking

Grabbing data that agrees with conclusions
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Outliers

What is average
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Correlation isn’t causation

A relationship isn't a cause
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Bias

  • Small sample
  • Skewed sample
  • Confirmation bias
  • Representative
  • Random?
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Affective Manipulation

Using leading questions
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