Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22547 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Technical Report No. 2004,35
Publisher: 
Universität Dortmund, Sonderforschungsbereich 475 - Komplexitätsreduktion in Multivariaten Datenstrukturen, Dortmund
Abstract: 
The article shows by various examples how consumers of statistical information may be confused when this information is presented in terms of conditional probabilities. It also shows how this confusion helps others to lie with statistics, and it suggests how either confusion or lies can be avoided by using alternative modes of conveying statistical information.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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