# Quote — Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

> It's all a little like the tale of a roadside merchant who was asked to explain how he could sell rabbit sandwiches so cheap. "Well," he said, "I have to put in some horse meat too. But I mix 'em fifty-fifty: one horse, one rabbit."

- 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/its-all-a-little

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

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> 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.

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

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