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“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,”
― Alberto Cairo, How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

“Consider this: when you’re trying to change someone’s feelings or attitudes, your words account for just 7 percent of your overall message. Seven percent. That’s it. In contrast, your tone of voice accounts for 38 percent of it, and your body language accounts for a colossal 55 percent. This is the famous 7-38-55 rule, or concept, which Albert Mehrabian, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, came up with in 1971 in his book Silent Messages.”
― Mehdi Hasan, Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

“Republicans often win because “they have a near-monopoly in the marketplace of emotions,” while Democrats continue to naively “place their stock in the marketplace of ideas.”
― Mehdi Hasan, Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

“Neuroscientific studies suggest that the brain responds in much the same anxious way to facts that threaten our preconceptions as it does to wild animals that threaten our lives.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics