"Nothing has been falsified—except the impression that it gives."

"This [the degree of significance] is the little figure that is not there—on the assumption that you, the lay reader, …"

"It is all too reminiscent of an old definition of the lecture method of classroom instruction: a process by which the…"

"There is terror in numbers. [...] Perhaps we suffer from a trauma induced by grade-school arithmetic."

"The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, con…"

"A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie"; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you."

"Who are those who chucked the questionnaire into the nearest wastebasket?"

"Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as l…"

"If you can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend they are the same thing. In the daz…"

"The president of the American Statistical Association once called me down for that. Not chicanery much of the time, s…"