Sign in with Facebook
“IF YOU can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference. The semiattached figure is a device guaranteed to stand you in good stead. It always has.”
― How to Lie with Statistics
― How to Lie with Statistics
“a difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.”
― How to Lie with Statistics
― How to Lie with Statistics
“proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.”
― How to Lie with Statistics
― How to Lie with Statistics
“Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.”
― How to Lie with Statistics
― How to Lie with Statistics
“Just to clear the air, let's note first of all that whatever an intelligence test measures it is not quite the same thing as we usually mean by intelligence. It neglects such important things as leadership and creative imagination. It takes no account of social judgement or musical or artistic or other aptitudes, to say nothing of such personality matters as diligence and emotional balance.”
― How to Lie with Statistics
― How to Lie with Statistics
Makarareth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Makarareth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Makarareth hasn't connected with their friends on Goodreads, yet.
Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Chick-lit, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Sports, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Makarareth
Lists liked by Makarareth
