Quotes About Misleading

The good news is that these descriptive statistics give us a manageable and meaningful summary of the underlying phenomenon. That's what this chapter is about. The bad news is that any simplification invites abuse. Descriptive statistics can be like online dating profiles: technically accurate and yet pretty darn misleading.

Descriptive statistics can be like online dating profiles: technically accurate and yet pretty darn misleading.

But who says that everyone using statistics is smart or honest? As mentioned, this book began as an homage to How to Lie with Statistics, which was first published in 1954 and has sold over a million copies.

We have a saying that a snake is never as long as the stick to which we liken its length.

I speak very quickly, even for an elected public servant. So if I fast-talk you, I'm not trying to mislead you.

People who purposefully mislead the public about issues as important as our kids' education have absolutely no place at the table.

Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They buy a fund that's hot and then it turns cold as all hot funds eventually do. And then they get out. Well, buying at the high and selling at the low isn't going to leave you a satisfied shareholder, right?

It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind.

I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.

American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies.

Gossip Girl' was a great opportunity, but it would be misleading to think that anyone on that show doesn't have anything more to offer.

I like jumping around perspective. It keeps things alive and makes you realize that your personal perspective on anything is very misleading and it's real hard to get a real sense of anything.

I'm a big believer in confidence, but I think sometimes that can be misleading.

Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.

Yes, it's easy to lie with statistics—but it's even easier to lie without them.*

In the United States radio listeners were gathered up by networks that saw them as consumers to be sold to; in Britain they were the masses to be instructed and improved; in Germany they were the people to be indoctrinated and misled.

The light, therefore, was always misleading.

we have smuggled in a misleadingly 'ethical' vocabulary to bolster our economic arguments

They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one—you'd swear he had been hitting the gin.

La falsa luz sólo nos lleva a adentrarnos más en la oscuridad.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.

There is less in this than meets the eye.