Summary

• sample with a built-in bias: What will the average salary be if you ask Cambrdigegraduates?
• well-chosen average (mean x median x _mode): Average person has less than 2 arms
• little sample(s): Having enough small samples you can select the one, that suits you the best.
• nice wording of practically nothing: “Camels are better than Marlboro”, yet they are both bad.
• graphs (changing the scale or not labeling the graph at all):

XKCD #833 by Randall Munroe

• one-dimensional picture: You can make the difference look greater by increasing the dimensionality of the graph.
• semi-attached/irrelevant figure: New Anticovid™ gel kills 13943 germs in 12 seconds.
• post-hoc:

XKCD #552 by Randall Munroe

Info

Title: How to Lie with Statistics
Author: Darrell Huff
ISBN10: 0393310728
ISBN13: 9780393310726