Lying is one of the traits that man has experienced since his creation. Throughout the ages, man has been fascinated by lies and deceit, through the falsification of manuscripts, coins and data, and the distortion of images. The poems, ideas, inventions, and books have not been handed over from misrepresentation and plagiarism not only in our time but over the preceding centuries. Through e-mail, thousands of victims are signed daily! Lying has become a widespread social scourge at present.
I read this book in 2001 when I was in college. It is a well-written interpretation of the various types of deception in presenting statistical facts, usually in advertisements. It is very helpful in training the reader to read ads skeptically. Statistical claims often contain a meaningless statistical index due to one or two missing facts that make the conclusion not supported by the so-called "statistics".
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It is dangerous - for example - to monitor the number of unemployed by relying on the number of people who go to the labor offices, looking for a job and use these statistics to calculate the unemployment rate, because many of the unemployed are reluctant to review the labor offices, because they do not know them.
There are many ways to determine the poverty line. Choosing the statistical method that shows the poverty line at a certain amount that satisfies officials without scientific justification is not without misuse of statistics.
The use of statistics for all females who did not get married when talking about "spinsterhood", although three-quarters of them were under the age of 20, is a form of misuse of statistics. It is sometimes reported that married women are more likely to volunteer a voluntary work, ignoring the fact that married women are the majority of women in general, so it is no surprise that their numbers are more than those of divorcees, widows and single women who do not represent a large