Darrell Huff Quotes & Sayings

Top 7 Darrell Huff Quotes

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

#2. Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.

#3. It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it.

#4. Many a statistic is false on its face. It gets by only because the magic of numbers bring about a suspension of common sense

#5. Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

#6. A difference is a difference only if it makes a difference.

#7. Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week.