Archive for October, 2008

Numbers Lie – Statistics, Politics and the Media, Part 1

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Randy Bisenz asked: Years ago I worked as a Marketing Manager for a large health products company.   It was an eye opening experience.  I was astounded to find out how willing top management was to distort information (in other words lie) in order to increase sales and profits or to boost the price of the [...]