Re: How to lie with statistics

["Haskell, Larry" <Haskell@iema.state.il.us>]

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	Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:35:53 -0500

	From: Mike Bohan <mike.bohan@YALE.EDU>

	Subject: Re:How to Lie With Statistics



	Hello Radsafers,



	Two other great references in this vein are:



	"How to Lie with Charts" by Gerald E. Jones, Sybex, Inc., 1995 and

	"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information", by Edward R.

Tufte,

	Graphics Press, 1983. They provide the same kind of info on how

charts

	are used to bamboozlle the unwary.





Tufte is one of the true classics.  Not only does he rail against bad

graphics, but goes on to discuss what makes excellent graphic presentation

of data.  He summarizes beautifully:  "Data graphics should draw the

viewer's attention to the sense and substance of the data, not to something

else."



His discussion of non-data ink alone should be reviewed by anyone preparing

data graphics.   



Larry Haskell

Environmental Health Physicist

Illinois Emergency Management Agency

Haskell@iema.state.il.us

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