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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

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896 points tux3 | 4 comments | 01 Apr 25 12:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.249s | source
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abhink ◴[01 Apr 25 13:12 UTC] No.43546404[source]▶
I spent a good minute looking at the exponential in graph, ignoring all the actual data points, thinking to myself that the experiment does show an exponential relation. Where's the lie?

Guess that's the power pictures have over words.

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1. nottorp ◴[01 Apr 25 14:08 UTC] No.43546968[source]▶
There should be some more examples in how to lie with statistics?
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2. worthless-trash ◴[01 Apr 25 15:48 UTC] No.43548207[source]▶
I believe this is commonly known as marketing.
3. incognito124 ◴[01 Apr 25 18:28 UTC] No.43549988[source]▶
Believe it or not, there's an entire book about it!
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4. nottorp ◴[01 Apr 25 20:17 UTC] No.43550894[source]▶
Yes, it's called "How to lie with statistics" :)