How to Lie with Statistics

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

-Benjamin Disraeli

Then there are two types of people, those who readily believe statistics and those who dare to think. Even Einstein noted, “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Everybody lets in certain ideas and filters out others, which is a good thing. However very very few people ever go the next step to question their filters, or the process they use to unconsciously pay attention to certain info and not other info. Don’t you think?

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