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From: tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch)
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Subject: Re: Watch them closely -- statistics
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 16:05:55 EDT
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Those Newsweek statistics for men and women sound really
gross.  There's a recent book by Edward Tufte called
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" which
is far and away the best book on what good and bad statistics
look like that I know.

One of its principles is never mix up your scales; another
is keep it simple.  Anyhow, it's a great book.  This Newsweek
example should have gone in it as a classic boner.

Tony Wuersch
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