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Inflazione al 5,7%, Urso esulta: «Pieno successo del "carrello tricolore"». Ma i prezzi dei beni alimentari sono aumentati

Nel 2023 i prezzi al consumo sono cresciuti del 5,7% (contro l'8,1% del 2022). Ma l'Istat precisa: «Il rallentamento si deve al calo dei pre

«Se torturi i numeri abbastanza, alla fine confesseranno ciò che vuoi»

Darrell Huff

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Title: How to Lie with Statistics | Author: Darrell Huff | Publisher: Penguin (1991)

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‘How to Lie With Statistics’: Teachers Union Edition

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How to Lie with Statistics, Darrell Huff (M, 40s, snow boots, dog-eared pages, face in hand, JSQ Path)

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Book-A-Day Challenge, 1-11

So…this is a thing that I wanted to do, but I don’t live in the UK, I don’t have Instagram, and I’m awful at doing anything “a-day,” so I figured what I would do is do it here, for Book Club Thursday.  But since it’s for the entire month of December, I’ll just start with today and the ten days of December that have passed us.

This was found on the PenguinUKBooks Instagram.

1. Pride and Prejudice:…

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“The fault is in the filtering-down process from the researcher through the sensational or ill-informed writer to the reader who fails to miss the figures that have disappeared in the process. A good deal of the misunderstanding can be avoided if to the "norm" or average is added an indication of the range. Parents seeing that their youngsters fall within the normal range will quit worrying about small and meaningless differences. 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, How to Lie with Statistics

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“Just to clear the air, let's note first of all that whatever an intelligence test measures it is not quite the same thing as we usually mean by intelligence. It neglects such important things as leadership and creative imagination. It takes no account of social judgement or musical or artistic or other aptitudes, to say nothing of such personality matters as diligence and emotional balance.”

― Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

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“It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.”

― Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics