Haven’t heard of that book, but I’m pretty well versed on how to fool people with statistics and graphs.
One of my favorites: Imagine a vertical bar graph where the Y axis is from zero to 100, and all the X axis data points are in the 80-85 range. Thus, the graph shows that there isn’t much difference from variations in X.
But if you want to make it look otherwise, you just alter the Y axis to be from 80 to 85, making it look like there’s a huge variation…as long as the viewer doesn’t notice what was done to the Y axis.
Haven’t heard of that book, but I’m pretty well versed on how to fool people with statistics and graphs.
One of my favorites: Imagine a vertical bar graph where the Y axis is from zero to 100, and all the X axis data points are in the 80-85 range. Thus, the graph shows that there isn’t much difference from variations in X.
But if you want to make it look otherwise, you just alter the Y axis to be from 80 to 85, making it look like there’s a huge variation…as long as the viewer doesn’t notice what was done to the Y axis.