A Field Guide to Lies

Sometimes the people giving you the facts are hoping you’ll draw the wrong conclusion; sometimes they don’t know the difference themselves.

It is easy to lie with statistics and graphs because few people take the time to look under the hood and see how they work.

We’ve created more human-made information in the last five years than in all of human history before them.

There are three ways of calculating an average, and they often yield different numbers, so people with statistical acumen usually avoid the word average in favor of the more precise terms mean, median, and mode.