The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls,… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
“Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.” — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
