From One Classic: How To Lie With Statistics Assignment 1

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Please read the e-mailed 2 chapters from one classic: How to Lie with Statistics. Your assignment is:
1. Select two "misleading practices" from the two chapters. Describe in your words the misleading practice.
A- One of the trickiest ways to mispresent statistical is by means of a map. That was clear from “The Darkening Shadow” shows that federal states spending equal to the income of people there. This was true but there also other states has low income was not mentioned in their statistics. This means they hidden that there are other people with low income in other states.
B- The Columbus selling a product by $ 40, while that costs only $1.75. This means, make about 3,800 percent profit from the cost price. And when they make sales or discount
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