How To Make Numbers Say Anything You Want

With one false assumption you can prove anything. There are a ton of examples, but here is one of my favorites (from <a href="http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html</a>):<p>Bertrand Russell, in a lecture on logic, mentioned that in the sense of material implication, a false proposition implies any proposition. A student raised his hand and said "In that case, given that 1 = 0, prove that you are the Pope". Russell immediately replied, "Add 1 to both sides of the equation: then we have 2 = 1. The set containing just me and the Pope has 2 members. But 2 = 1, so it has only 1 member; therefore, I am the Pope."

<i>Let’s make the Democrats blue dark and bold, give it a bit of an angry feel to it. This is our way of getting the audience to look at the democrats in a harsh way.</i><p>Since when is blue a "harsh" color? If they were trying to give democrats an angry feel, dems should have been red.<p>And what the hell is wrong with increasing the interval of the x-axis to make it more readable?<p>I think this article is more deceptive than the graphs are.

As far as articles on statistical quackery goes this one is as close to content free as I've seen. You can do better HN.