Lying With Statistics

The story behind West Virginia's 'no coronavirus' statistic - Lies https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/us/west-virginia-coronavirus-patient-one-test/index.html 4 comments 22/3/2020 worldnews

Jail Statistics Give the Lie to Trump Asylum Policy https://www.courthousenews.com/jail-statistics-give-the-lie-to-trump-asylum-policy/ 4 comments 14/2/2020 politics

How to lie with Statistics? https://bookjelly.com/2013/09/02/how-to-lie-with-statistics/ 13 comments 11/12/2017 statistics

A 43% Chance That Statistics Never Lie http://gadgtecs.com/2017/08/15/a-43-chance-that-statistics-never-lie/ 3 comments 16/8/2017 statistics

Data Don't Lie: An interactive player statistics visualization http://www.harrisonrbrown.com/ddl/index.html 3 comments 11/4/2017 nba

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics http://insider.espn.go.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/16260364/100-facts-consider-2016-fantasy-football-season 46 comments 22/6/2016 nfl

How to Catch Someone Lying with Statistics https://terpconnect.umd.edu/~nthieme/Liar.html 9 comments 6/7/2015 statistics

Lies and Statistics: How India’s Largest State Fudges Crime Data http://www.thenewsminute.com/news_sections/3230 3 comments 14/3/2015 india

How to lie with statistics, XXI century edition. http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/print-edition/20150214_FBC081.png 45 comments 17/2/2015 russia

'Lies, damned lies, and statistics' http://euobserver.com/news/123293 3 comments 7/4/2014 europe

Lies, damn lies, and China's economic statistics http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/lies-damn-lies-and-chinas-economic-statistics/articleshow/21840949.cms 2 comments 15/8/2013 worldnews

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics: Carmelo and LeBron http://www.slate.com/id/2287339/ 3 comments 8/3/2011 nba

How to Lie with Statistics http://www.physics.smu.edu/~pseudo/liestat/ 23 comments 2/8/2009 math

Lies and statistics: 600,000 Chinese engineers http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/06/13/629452.aspx 3 comments 13/6/2006 reddit.com

Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong https://quillette.com/2024/02/13/narratives-damned-lies-and-statistics/ 20 comments 15/2/2024 germany

Debunking Trump's 'Big Lie,' scholars and statistics show the facts don't add up https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-08-17/trump-big-lie-experts-debunk-voting-fraud-claims 77 comments 17/8/2021 politics

Lies, damned lies, and statistics about marijuana legalization http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/370519-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-about-marijuana-legalization 5 comments 1/2/2018 politics

Aadhaar - Lies, damn lies & statistics - authentication fails, gross savings https://twitter.com/aparatbar 109 comments 24/6/2017 india

Lies, Damned Lies Through Statistics: TOI’s Modi@2 Survey http://www.thequint.com/politics/2016/05/26/times-of-india-lies-damned-lies-statistics-narendra-modi-popularity-survey-of-urban-youth 10 comments 28/5/2016 india

Six Ways to Separate Lies From Statistics http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2013-05-01/six-ways-to-separate-lies-from-statistics 7 comments 7/5/2016 statistics

USA unemployment rate is really 22% - the "9%" is a statistical lie http://usawatchdog.com/9-unemployment-rate-is-a-statistical-lie/ 11 comments 13/2/2011 politics

Conservatives and Porn - Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ymyxy2rkogq5nmi5nwrlnwm0mtyxnjcwyzvmyzllyzc= 2 comments 1/3/2009 reddit.com

Lies, damned lies, and (Cloudflare) statistics: debunking Cloudflare’s recent performance tests https://www.fastly.com/blog/debunking-cloudflares-recent-performance-tests 3 comments 7/12/2021 webdev

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: "As of late this evening, Sun will have shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime" http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/javafx_hits_100_000_000 38 comments 15/2/2009 programming

Statistics show Republicans lie about health care a lot. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/18/768157/-republican-pants-on-fire 3 comments 18/8/2009 politics

Lies, damned lies and statistics: The confusing analytics of the NBA's 3-point obsession https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/nba-insider-tom-haberstroh/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics-confusing-analytics-nbas-3-point 5 comments 7/12/2018 nba

The complete manuscript of "How to Lie with Smoking Statistics", a tobacco-funded sequel to "How to Lie with Statistics" http://www.refsmmat.com/articles/smoking-statistics.html 6 comments 11/10/2014 statistics

We need new statistical columns in NBA because of Jokic. Rebounds and assits while lying on the floor! https://streamable.com/qke7lf 3 comments 15/3/2021 nba

More statist propaganda, fear, and lies from CoinGeek & Craig S. Wright: “How DSV, ABC, Roger Ver, and Jihan Wu seek to criminalize Bitcoin Cash and facilitate child pornography” https://coingeek.com/dsv-seeks-criminalize-bitcoin-bch-blockchain/ 9 comments 11/11/2018 btc

Numbers Don’t Lie: Statistics Point To Massive Fraud In Russia’s Duma Vote http://www.rferl.org/content/statistics-point-to-massive-fraud-russia-state-duma-elections/28002750.html 163 comments 22/9/2016 worldnews

Numbers Don’t Lie: Statistics Point To Massive Fraud In Russia’s Duma Vote http://www.rferl.org/content/statistics-point-to-massive-fraud-russia-state-duma-elections/28002750.html 102 comments 22/9/2016 europe

Santorum cites flawed climate change figure, and misquotes it. "This is like something out of that book, How to Lie With Statistics," said Stephen Farnsworth http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/01/rick-santorum/santorum-cites-flawed-climate-change-figure-and-mi/ 23 comments 2/9/2015 politics

Blame Statism for the Disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan - The responsibility for the debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan lies not with the Iraqi or Afghan people. It lies with American statists, and specifically with the imperialism and interventionism that forms the core of U.S. foreign policy. http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-09-22.asp 3 comments 23/9/2010 politics

This is why statistics courses need to be required in high school. So you can see through people who try to lie using them. http://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/d1prh/public_mistrusts_nuclear_power_report_says/c0wy325?context=1 65 comments 19/8/2010 math

Meta-analysis finds that adults can only accurately discriminate truths or lies told by children at an average rate of 54%, which is slightly above chance levels, while still statistically significant. http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2016-46793-001/ 3 comments 8/1/2017 science

Statistics don't lie, do they? Raising the Social Security retirement age is telling janitors they can't retire because lawyers are living longer. http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/11/16/this_modern_world 16 comments 16/11/2010 politics

Lies, Damn Lies, and CBO Statistics: The Republican-led Congressional Budget Office is using gimmicks and fuzzy math to “prove” that the richest country on Earth can’t afford a decent welfare state. https://jacobinmag.com/2021/11/congressional-budget-office-reconciliation-bbb-gottheimer-dems 64 comments 12/11/2021 politics