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by scribu 2726 days ago
You mean like Huff's "How To Lie With Statistics"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

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Yeah that's a classic. But it takes a lot of effort to pick apart those kinds of things. Some of the logic is very subtle and gets lost if you're also in a partisan debate.