# Quote — Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

> If you can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anyone will notice the difference.

- Author: [Darrell Huff](https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff.md)
- Book: [How to Lie with Statistics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff/how-to-lie-with-statistics.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff/how-to-lie-with-statistics/if-you-cant

## More from this book

> "Does it make sense?" will often cut a statistic down to size when the whole rigmarole is based on an unproven assumption.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff/how-to-lie-with-statistics/does-it-make.md)

> Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/darrell-huff/how-to-lie-with-statistics/even-if-you.md)

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

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