Statistics are like a bikini. They are important not so much beacuse of what they reveal, but what they conceal.
I forget this one – someone might want to google it. Something along the lines of:
A statistician is like a man navigating from a map that he just drew by looking out the rear window.
Could this be the book you’re trying to remember? We used it as a supplemental text in a high school statistics class I took back in the '70s. We all loved it then, and I saw it again a few years back and still enjoyed it.
Darrell Huff wrote it in 1954. If you think Cecil’s been fighting ignorance for a long time . . .
Or, four thirds of people don’t understand fractions. Or, 165% of people don’t understand percentages.
How can there be a standard deviation? If its deviant, isn’t it by definition not standard?
Statistics, where deviation is standard and mean is average.
I’m surprised nobody has posted that yet.