For many years in the early days of computer-generated graphics, I was a designer of charts and graphs for business presentations. My book How to Lie with Charts coopted the title of the classic text on data misrepresentation, How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff and Irving Geis.
I admit I have a high-school level familiarity with mathematics. My e…
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